[web-devel] maxListenQueue

[Jeremy Shaw]

On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Kazu Yamamoto <kazu at iij.ad.jp> wrote:
> Hi Jeremy,

> One question and one suggestion.
>
> Question: you set NoDelay to the listen socket. What is the intention?
> Do connected sockets inherit this flag? Regardless of inheritance, I'm
> not sure this option improves the performance of HTTP servers. It is
> the option for interactive applications such as ssh.

I am pretty sure I just copied that flag from snap. Yay for cargo
culting! It tests show that it doesn't help anything then we can
remove it. Or at least add a comment that is doesn't appear to help
anything..

> Suggestion: allocating ByteString is a heavy job. If you can reuse the
> ByteString of recv() for multiple HTTP requests in an HTTP connection,
> the performance would be improved much.

How would that even be possible?

- jeremy