Re: How to make a responsive server?

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Lars,

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 08:41, Lars Petersson wrote:
> I have browsed through the archives and found out that ORBit2 is
> not really thread-safe. It was also explained that in a process, there
> must (currently) only be one thread that takes care of incoming and
> outgoing messages. So my question is then, if we have a client that
> asks the server to perform a heavy computation (takes a long time)
> and return with the answer, how can we make the server still be responsive
> to other clients that asks the server to do the same or other things?

	There are several ways to do it; one easy one would be to scatter a few
linc_main_iteration (FALSE)'s inside the slow method - of course, you
have to be able to cope with the re-enterancy ramifications of that but
you get that sort of thing anyway.

	HTH,

		Michael.

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