Re: slapd lightweight dispatcher

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Aaron Richton wrote:
> > One thing I'll note about multi-conn is that it requires a variable in
> > connection.c to be set to the number of cpu's on the system where slapd
> > will be run.  I think this should instead be changed to a parameter in
> >     
>
> Ideally, this would be grokked (perhaps sysconf(3c) could be used). But
> I'm not sure how portable this is/could be...POSIX specifies the call, but
> I don't think the variables in question are specified.
>
>   
This has zero chance of working portably. Especially given the ability 
on some multiprocessor systems to configure processor sets and partition 
jobs among sets.

Again, if we eliminate connections_mutex, then the multi-conn code's 
reason for existence also disappears. Simpler is better.

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