Watching performance on a DHCP Server

Christof Chen christof at chen.de
Wed Feb 13 17:50:02 UTC 2008


Am Mittwoch 13 Februar 2008 10:28:22 schrieb Enrique Perez-Terron:
> Or, perhaps there is yet another way: delay responses to the clients,
> process other incoming request, and upon timeout (a few milliseconds),
> send all the offers to the log in a single transaction, fsync(), then
> send out all the offers to the clients. However, this may require a far
> bigger rewrite of the server.
>

That is the way 4.1.0a1 behaves. The timeout condition is currently either "no 
more requests to process" or a configurable number of outstanding ACKs 
(whichever comes first). 
The code for a fsync() after some interval is there but commented out.

Best regards,
	Christof Chen



More information about the dhcp-users mailing list