[Chilli] chilli speed

[Sevan / Venture37]

On 27/10/2009 11:49, David Bird wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It has been a complaint that chilli is throughput limited on typical
> routers (much less so on a typical PC). Doing some testing with
> valgrind, not surprisingly, the one of the biggest time-sinks is the
> check on the "message queue" that chilli established. This has been
> around in chilli from the beginning, and is the mechanism for the forked
> "redir" processes to communicate back to chilli (like, for instance,
> when someone has logged in successfully). In the main chilli loop, the
> queue is checked for messages on each pass... and for each packet
> in/out! I've been doing some testing using a UNIX socket instead, where
> the socket can be part of the select() (and not require the expensive
> msgrcv() call) and has just about completely removed the overhead
> associated in servicing this IPC mechanism. Anyways, I haven't test it
> yet on a router, but it looks promising!
>
> David

Very Cool! :)

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