Re: Usable translators: nsmux details

[olafBuddenhagen]

Hi,

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 12:58:53PM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:

> Frankly speaking, my memory holds no remembering of discussions about
> how to shut down anonymous translators.  In the current implementation
> an nsmux client obtains a port to an nsmux node which redirects all
> requests to the corresponding anonymous translator.  Perhaps, nsmux
> could use a node cache and discard those translators which are pointed
> to by nodes which are about to be evicted from the cache.
> 
> I don't think making nsmux capable of shutting down translators is a
> hard task in itself: the central problem is that I am not sure we have
> agreed on how to implement it best.

My memory is also rather dim on that... At some point we discussed the
possibility of shutting down the anonymous translators immediately,
instead of waiting for a timeout, if we *know* there are no further
outstanding client ports -- meaning the translator won't ever be used
anymore. But I don't remember how and in what situation we would know
that...

This is just an optimization though. (Albeit a rather important one, in
case of translators that don't have an automatic timeout...) Some of the
other outstanding TODO items however were much more fundamental IIRC?...

-antrik-