threads-pool

The threadsNo property allows you to fine-tune the SM plugin’s (processors) thread pool. With the default settings every plugin gets his own thread pool. This guarantees the best performance and optimal resource usage. The downside of this setting is that packets can arrive out of order if they are processed within different thread pools.

We can even fine tune this packet processing. Let’s say you want most of the plugins to be executed within a single thread pool to preserve packet ordering for them, but for some selected plugins that should execute within separate thread pools to improve performance. Let’s say, authentication packets and user registration can be actually executed in a separate thread pools as we do not worry about an order for them. Users cannot send or receive anything else before they authenticates anyway. The solution is to specify a number of threads for the selected plugin. For example, setting a common thread pool for all plugins but registration and authentication can be done with following configuration:

'sess-man' () {
    'amp' () {
        threadsNo = 30
    }
    'presence-state' () {
        threadsNo = 27
    }
}

This replaces the old --sm-threads-pool property, as well as specifying thread pools in --sm-plugins.