[Gluster-devel] Notes on "brick multiplexing" in 4.0

[Jeff Darcy]

> Reading through that, it sounds like a well thought out approach.

Thanks!

> Did you consider a super-lightweight version first, which only has
> a process listening on one port for multiplexing traffic, and then
> passes the traffic to individual processes running on the server?
> 
>   eg similar to how common IPv4 NAT does, but for gluster traffic

Yes, I thought about it.  Depending on how it's done, it could
alleviate the too-many-ports problem, but it doesn't really address
the uncontrolled contention for CPU, memory, and so on.  In a way
it would make that worse, as it's one more process to keep
switching in and out among the others.  Sure would have been nice,
though.