[Mimedefang] Embedding Perl in Multiplexor -- good idea?

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Oct 24 07:29:15 EDT 2003


On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Martin Bene wrote:

> Dumb question here: currently, the multiplexor forks/execs each slave process
> seperately, i.e there's little shared memory between the slaves.

Right.

> Could this be improved by starting just one perl process directly from the
> multiplexor, fully initialize it (including ss/razor whatnot startup) and
> then fork off the actual worker slaves from that?

That would happen automatically with an embedded Perl interpreter.  I think
it would help quite a bit.

--
David.



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