Re: A question about event driven paradigm and helper/worker thread

[Javier Guerra Giraldez <javier@...>]

gary ng wrote:
> The problem though is, with such a design and I have
> say 10K connections, I need 10K helper threads which
> totally negate the advantage of the orginal event
> driven design, where each coroutine takes only about
> 20K(for a hello world type response) vs 1M for an OS
> thread.
>
> A modification of it would be to have a pool of helper
> threads and find the free one and use it, then spawn
> new ones if all are occupied.

HTT does (most) of this for you.

you create as many helper threds as you want, and all that share the 
same input queue colaborate on handling the tasks you put there.

the included scheduler uses this to separate the creation of helper 
threads and lua 'threads'.

--
Javier