Re: imap, send/recv_io, etc: Working on a problem...

Hello,

At Thu, 06 May 2004 14:05:38 -0500,
Hal Fulton <[email protected]> wrote:
> So I have some questions:
> 
> 1. Is it possible to use the "parent" Apache process to run this code?
>     If it's possible, is there any reason not to do so?

No, the parant process does not have the ruby interpreter instance.

> 2. Can I use send_io and recv_io to pass the connection between
>     processes? Or if the cache is owned by the parent, should I try
>     some other method?

I think you have to use the support process to manage IMAP
connections.
But I don't know how send_io(sendmsg(2)) cost.
It may cost as much as IMAP connections.

> 3. Is send_fd relevant here? I don't yet understand how it works.

Do you mean Apache::Request#send_fd?
It is used to transfer data from IO to the client.
So it's not relevant.


I think IMAP authentications are not so expensive because parsing of
other IMAP responses are expensive enough:)
But I may be wrong because I have not profiled.

If it is the problem, the solution like WEBrick or FastCGI may be
better than mod_ruby.
Because they handles all requests in one process.

Shugo