[ANN] ngx_lua v0.1.5: ability to capture multiple parallelsubrequests

[Justin Cormack]

On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 11:55 +0800, agentzh wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Akins, Brian <Brian.Akins at turner.com> wrote:
> >  agentzh,
> >
> > I was wondering if you had considered having a capture mode that used a
> > callback rather than coroutines?  In really high traffic servers, the
> > coroutines seem to eat a good bit of memory.
> >

Have you tried getting Lua to garbage collect before yielding? That
might help.

> Have you tried LuaJIT 2.0? It saves 25+% of the total RAM used by our
> nginx worker processes in our business, compared to the standard Lua
> 5.1 interpreter. Also the latter's coroutine implementation is
> suboptimal.
> 
> Another issue is that most of the upstream modules do not release its
> output bufs as early as possible in the context of subrequests, they
> usually rely on the nginx memory pool to release all those bufs when
> the pool is destroyed at the end of the main request, which is quite
> unacceptable. We'll fix our upstream modules and possibly other
> standard modules (via patches) to release buffers at the end of the
> subrequest, rather than main request.

That sounds a good fix...

> 
> Technically speaking, callbacks won't save memory, we still need to
> save all your Lua context such that you can get access to data in the
> outer context in your Lua callback, or it'll be useless :)
> 
> Cheers,
> -agentzh
> 
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