Re: Restricting maximum parallel connections

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Pratik wrote:
>>He is using it to throttle by CPU, but it's easy to make it use number
>>of connections within a time window instead.
> 
> 
> But I am more interested in restricting parallel connections rather
> than request/rate.

You can store simple +1/-1 values if you want to.  The interesting part 
is that it packs the data into a small fixed-size chunk which makes 
appends atomic without flocking.  However, Cache::FastMmap is very fast, 
so I'm not sure it would be worthwhile for you to change things.

- Perrin