Announce: Perlbal 1.42

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

I have no need, nor time, but it'd be nice if somebody did it.



On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Elliot F wrote:

> Welcome back, Brad!
>
> I was wondering if you were planning on porting the SSL work on djabberd
> back into perlbal.  Is that planned at all?  Does anyone else have any
> interest in this?
>
> Elliot
>
> Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > New Perlbal release on CPAN:  1.42.
> >
> > Some fun new features.  Full changes diff:
> >
> > diff -urN Perlbal-1.41/CHANGES Perlbal-1.42/CHANGES
> > --- Perlbal-1.41/CHANGES        2006-02-06 19:11:22.000000000 +0000
> > +++ Perlbal-1.42/CHANGES        2006-08-04 04:50:21.000000000 +0000
> > @@ -1,3 +1,31 @@
> > +1.42: 2006-08-03
> > +
> > +    -- debug management command 'varsize' to track size of internal
> > +       data structures, to make sure none get out of control.
> > +       there's a report that CPU/mem grow slowly over time, and after
> > +       a month or so of uptime, a restart is needed.  this might help
> > +       diagnose that.
> > +
> > +    -- allow expansion/interoplation of stuff in config files/commands.
> > +       for now just mapping network device names to IP addresses:
> > +          SET listen = ${ip:eth0}:80
> > +
> > +    -- more hooks as requested by community
> > +
> > +    -- concatenated get feature.  where a client have use a
> > +       comma-separated list of files to return, always in text/plain.
> > +       Useful for webapps which have dozens/hundreds of tiny css/js
> > +       files, and don't trust browsers/etc to do pipelining.
> > +       Decreases overall roundtrip latency a bunch, but requires app
> > +       to be modified to support it.  See t/17-concat.t test for
> > +       details.
> > +
> > +    -- do AIO readahead before sendfile to reduce blocking caused
> > +       by disk reads from sendfile.  increases throughput.  see:
> > +       http://brad.livejournal.com/2228488.html
> > +
> > +    -- add 'latency' configuration on selector roles
> > +
> >
> >
> > Enjoy!
> > Brad
> >
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