23 Oct
2009
23 Oct
'09
12:05 p.m.
Timo Sirainen wrote:
It currently doesn't even try to group same user's connections to same process, they'll just go randomly to whichever process manages to accept it first. Some day perhaps there should be a new service in the middle that keeps track of existing connections and forwards new ones to right mail processes.
Might this drop out to some extent if you used some kind of consistent hash algorithm to map user_name to processes? I guess it's likely to be imperfect, but might buy you something for free?
Just a thought
Ed W