How are Httpprovider and modules called. Do they use multithreading?

Wowza Streaming Engine
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Hi there,

I’m wondering how Httpproviders are invoked. Will the main thread run this httpprovider in the main thread, or create a new thread to run this provider?

For example, I wrote an httpproivder named “say_hello”. It’s bind to port 1935 and the request filter is *greeting. If thousands of clients simultaneously send “http://wowza ip:1935/greeting” to my server, what will happen on the Wowza server end?

Thanks! :slight_smile:

Yorick

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Hi Yorick,

This was addressed by our CTO in a previous post.

Here is a quote from his post:

The server runs on a thread pool mechansism. There is a handler thread pool and transport thread pool. It is not a single thread per-connection. We use non-blocking IO in Java to handle the transport. We have multiple select handlers running on their own threads.

So overall the server is highly multi-threaded. Everything is broken into small jobs and submitted to thread pools.

Michelle

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I would be very interested in this blog post, but the link seems to be broken. Please, can you provide a working link?

Thanks!

Yann