Re: Forking inside netfilter queue

[Rayed <rayed@saudi.net.sa>]

Thanks Jan for the reply.

I know how preforking works (almost), what I want to know if multi 
processes can access the same queue API without breaking anything.


Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Apr 30 2007 16:18, Rayed wrote:
>   
>> I am building netfilter queue application, that implement simple
>> HTTP filter.
>>
>> It basically will capture the packet, extract the URL, and issue
>> MySQL lookup to see if the address is permitted or blocked.
>>
>> My only fear that address lookup will block the traffic until I get
>> the lookup reply, so I am thinking of using preforking model to
>> fork 10-20 processes to handle the same queue.
>>
>> Has any one done multi prcoess handling of the queue, is it even doable?
>>     
>
> See Apache, it uses preforking. But perhaps threading is much simpler
> and equally fast.
>
>
> Jan
>