Configuring The File Cache; Adding And Using Thread Pools; The Native Thread Pool And Generic Thread Pools (Windows Nt/Windows 2000) - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Configuring the File Cache

For more information, see The Restore Configuration Page in the online help.
Configuring the File Cache
The Enterprise Server uses a file cache to serve static information faster. In the
previous version of the server, there was also an accelerator cache which routed
requests to the file cache, but the accelerator cache is no longer used. The file cache
contains information about files, and static file content. The file cache also caches
information that is used to speed up processing of server-parsed HTML.
The file cache is turned on by default. The file cache settings are contained in a file
called
For more information, see the Netscape Enterprise Server Performance Tuning, Sizing,
and Scaling Guide.

Adding and Using Thread Pools

You can use thread pools to allocate a certain number of threads to a specific
service.
Another use for thread pools is for running thread-unsafe plugins. By defining a
pool with the maximum number of threads set to 1, only one request is allowed
into the specified service function.
When you add a thread pool, the information you specify includes the minimum
and maximum number of threads, the stack size, and the queue size.
For more information, see the Netscape Enterprise Server Performance Tuning, Sizing,
and Scaling Guide.
The Native Thread Pool and Generic Thread
Pools (Windows NT/Windows 2000)
On Windows NT/Windows 2000, you can use two types of thread pools: the native
thread pool (
To edit the native thread pool, access the Native Thread Pool in the Server
Manager.
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. You can use the Server Manager to change the file cache settings.
nsfc.conf
) and additional generic thread pools.
NativePool