rlm_rest performance / thread usage

[Бенджамин Томпсон]

2017-09-13 4:24 GMT+03:00 Arran Cudbard-Bell <a.cudbardb at freeradius.org>:

>
> > On 12 Sep 2017, at 19:18, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Sep 12, 2017, at 7:41 AM, Бенджамин Томпсон <b.thompson at latera.ru>
> wrote:
> >> I would like to ask whether there is likely to be any performance
> >> difference beteween these two solutions. rlm_perl is performing well
> for us
> >> and as I understand it runs in a multithreaded mode whereby multple perl
> >> instances can be created by multiple server threads. I would like to ask
> >> whether the rlm_rest module is likely to offer as good as or better
> >> performance as we are currently getting with rlm_perl.
> >
> >  I would say that the REST module has better performance than Perl.  For
> the simple reason that it's doing less work.
>
> It also does things right out of the box, like connection caching.  With
> Perl and Python that was always a bit of a pain because of needing data to
> persist between requests.
>
> >  i.e. it's *only* doing REST.  The Perl module has an entire Perl
> interpreter, overhead, etc.
>
> Even faster in v4.0.x as we've switched to the async libcurl interface.
>
> -Arran
>


Thanks Alan and Arran for your replies.