Re: [Libevent-users] multithreading problem

[Mark Ellzey <mthomas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 11:30:00AM +0100, Bj?rn K. wrote:
> The posted code compiles on my machine without modifications. Thus I
> wonder why you have to do some cleanup.
> But the example code fails silently. Perhaps you don't run it with
> enough rights to bind to port 443?
> 
> Most of the time I access the server with a browser and keep the
> reload button pressed. Sometimes I use the apache ab tool.
> 
> I tried to understand how libevhtp works. If I get it right, all
> connections are handled in the main thread and only the payload is
> processed in a worker thread. For non-ssl connections this is fine but
> for example for a ssl-only static web page server I think I do not
> really profit from multithreading this way because all of the ssl
> stuff is done in the main thread.
> 


No. Each connection gets its accept callback in the main thread, the
actual accept() / handshake is done in a thread.
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