Bind to Unix Socket ?

[mikehu404]

Hello,
I wonder if remark42 server could bind to unix socket,
I can't find it anywhere in remark42's doc.
Unix socket is faster than tcp, as discussed here
It would be great to have this feature.
Especially if you want to put remark42 behind a reverse proxy like nginx or haproxy.

[umputun]

pls use discussions unless you report an actual bug

moved

[umputun]

If the purpose of this idea is to improve performance, it should be tested first using an appropriate set of benchmarks. In my opinion, I don't believe this change would be noticeable in comparison to all the other aspects involved in request handling and unix sockets are unlikely to have a significant impact on performance.

However, the change is trivial and you can try to benchmark it. If my prediction is wrong and we see a material improvement we can consider adding support of unix sockets

[paskal]

My vote is against implementing it. Nobody cares about improving connection time from 6 microseconds to 2 microseconds when you need to send a bunch of bytes over the internet to the user so that they can render it: it will take them at 50ms minimum to get the comments (best-case scenario, but already 10 000 times bigger number than both 2 and 6 microseconds) and 30-200ms to render it based on how fast their device is.