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List:       freeradius-devel
Subject:    Re: Server updates
From:       Steve Ames <steve () virtual-voodoo ! com>
Date:       2000-03-31 22:36:10
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Wow. Someone has been very busy today... can't wait to test
out the new thread pools...

-Steve

On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 05:20:57PM -0500, Alan DeKok wrote:
>   Wait for the CVS log later tonight, but there have been a LOT of
> server updates today.  A short summary:
> 
> - preliminary support for thread pools.
> 
>   A pool of threads (5 for now) is started at initialization time,
>   and each incoming request is assigned to a thread in round-robin
>   fashion.  This gets around the speed issue of spawning a new thread
>   for every request.
> 
>   Only enabled if './configure --with-thread-pool'
> 
> 
> - ALL knowledge of '@realms' removed from the main server.
> 
>   The module rlm_realms now takes care of it, and of stripping the
>   '@realm' stuff from the user name.
> 
>   The proxy code is now completely ignorant of '@realms', and just
>   uses the Stripped-User-Name attribute as the User-Name to send to
>   the remote server.
> 
> - minor touch-ups in proxy code
> 
> 
>   Right now, proxying only works if the server is running in debugging
> mode.  This isn't optimal, and I hope to fix it on the weekend, or
> early next week.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.

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