max number of processes

[yawnmoth]

how can i determine what the maximum number of processes i should open
with popen (or proc_open) is? i assume it'd depend on the hardware of
the computer in question, but if that were teh case, then is there a
way to get info. about it, and some general method to determine a good
number of processes to open from that info?

[Sundial Services]

Re: max number of processes

yawnmoth wrote:
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> how can i determine what the maximum number of processes i should open
> with popen (or proc_open) is? i assume it'd depend on the hardware of
> the computer in question, but if that were teh case, then is there a
> way to get info. about it, and some general method to determine a good
> number of processes to open from that info?[/color]

If you have to ask... you're contemplating opening /way/ too many processes.

The number of processes that are alive at any one time should be small. You
should /never/ "create a process, let it handle one request and die." The
more runnable processes there are, the less time per-second each process
can receive. If you want to process several requests, use a queue, and
have the children remove requests from that queue.

[yawnmoth]

Re: max number of processes

Sundial Services <info@sundialse rvices.com> wrote in message news:<co21uf$o7 j$1@domitilla.a ioe.org>...[color=blue]
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> <snip>
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> If you have to ask... you're contemplating opening /way/ too many processes.
>
> The number of processes that are alive at any one time should be small. You
> should /never/ "create a process, let it handle one request and die." The
> more runnable processes there are, the less time per-second each process
> can receive. If you want to process several requests, use a queue, and
> have the children remove requests from that queue.[/color]

would an implementation whereby ea. process accessed a single file /
used that file as a queue be sufficient?

although that said, i think for my purposes, multiple processes may be
better (please correct me if i'm wrong). i'm trying to detect whether
or not those attempting to perform a certain action on a website are
doing so from proxies. because it takes about a second to reject a
proxy (well, using 1 as the timeout) it'd take about 8 seconds (if i
wanted to take 8 ports). that's a bit too much time, so i'm using
multiple processes to reduce it to (ideally) a second.