2008/11/13 Stefan Scholl stesch@no-spoon.de:
On 2008-11-13 06:50:51, Hans Hübner wrote:
No, Hunchentoot currently provides for no control over the number of threads that it creates. In multi threaded mode, a new thread is created for each incoming connection. There may be limits in Lispworks and/or Windows that create the apparent limitation that you observe, but they are not under Hunchentoots control.
As posted here 2005: SBCL can be crashed because of this.
http://common-lisp.net/pipermail/tbnl-devel/2005-August/002577.html
I deal with this by first only allowing a certain number of requests to get to the webapp at a time, and second actually throwing away requests as soon as they come in if they hit a higher number. (This no longer happens due to a better webapp; at most I generally have about 10 requests on each of three servers). It's not ideal, and a better solution would probably involve request queueing in a proxy.
Running more than one instance per machine and load balancing across them can actually work, as well; it doesn't seem to get overwhelmed as easily.
Rob