Re: polipo scalability

> Can someone give more hint about 'a few users'. How many users or how
> much speed that polipo can handle?

Well, I originally designed Polipo for a small number of users.
However, it turns out that I did a pretty good job of making Polipo
scalable:

  - all the algorithms user in Polipo are logarithmic in the number of
    simultaneously connected clients with one exception (poll is linear);
  - there are no in-memory data structures that grow when the on-disk
    cache grows.

In other words, Polipo should behave beautifully with large numbers of
clients.  As a matter of fact, it has been done (in Brazilian student
halls).

However, two issues.  First, the default parameters are not tuned for
this case; you'll probably want to dramatically increase the values of
serverSlots, serverSlots1 and maxServerSlots.  Second, there a number of
bugs in Polipo that will make your life miserable.

Good luck, and let us know how it goes.

                                        Juliusz

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