Re: stupid newbie question

The documentation is probably a little confusing on the point - the list
of channels in the valid_channels item int he [current] section is a
list of the label elements of the channels, not of the channel section
titles.  So, for your example, change the valid_channels line to:

valid_channels = redhat-7.1-i386

and it should work just fine.

On Fri, 05 Jul 2002, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
<snip>
> I was also curious about why this isn't scalable?  I noticed several
> places in the docs that it talks about this being for the small/medium
> sized set of clients, and was curious what the limiting factor is.

In the 1.0 series (1.0.5 stable), the server is single threaded and uses
Python BSDDB-backed shelves as the database mechanism.  The majority of
time is spent inside stunnel doing https/SSL decryption, but even then,
the single threaded nature of the server rapidly becomes a severe
limiter.  Later versions (notably the 1.3 devel series) address this
issue by beginning to use an Apache/mod_python front end, which allows
Apache to automagically create multiple Current server instances and to
handle requests as rapidly as possible.  This gives us significant
scalability over the standalone frontend, and also allows a cleaner
split between front and back ends.  The next major development effort
will be for a SQL-based back end (probably targetted at Postgres) as a
precursor to client tracking and support.

> 
> Thanks,
> Dan
> 
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