Re: Getting started withNet.data - was-I'dbetterdomorethan talk

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxx>]

Walden H. Leverich skrev  den 18-08-2008 21:23:
> I'd be very surprised if keep-alive tied up a server _thread_. Keep
> alive tells the server not to close the TCP socket, a performance
> improvement since there are several roundtrips required to open a new
> socket connection, but I can't imagine that a web server would dedicate
> a thread to a socket that was waiting for a new request. Speaking only
> for IIS (since it's the one I know best) IIS does _not_ dedicate a
> thread to that keep-alive socket.
>   
It is a good thing to find a http server component which is optimized 
for Ajax, since Ajax components usually mean a lot of idle connections.