ejabberd - Comments for "ExtAuth script performance concern"

The script is spawned in a

Robert Larsen — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 08:59:55 +0000

The script is spawned in a new process so the infinite loop won't hurt performance of the ejabberd process.
Spawning a new process for every login however would hurt performance since creating and destroying processes takes time.

Right, the extauth script

badlop — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 10:32:51 +0000

Right, the extauth script processes auth requests sequentially, which means that only one auth is processed at a time.

You can use this option to run several scripts in parallel: extauth_instances