> -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Taylor [mailto:dante at argle.org] > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:11 PM > To: TCLUG Mailing List > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] httpd.conf > > > > > David Phillips wrote: > > Troy.A Johnson writes: > > > >>I am not "freaking out" > > > > > > That was not directed at you, but rather people who know > little about web > > servers and assume Apache is the best web server available > simply because it > > is the most popular. > > > > > >>Do the same limitations apply to the Apache 2.0.x series? > > > > > > Yes. On most popular free UNIX operating systems (Linux, > FreeBSD), there is > > little difference between a process and a thread. In fact, > on Linux (at > > least up through 2.4), threads are implemented as processes (i.e. > > LinuxThreads). > > This is perhaps because process task switches are _already_ > so optimized > that there is little perfomance gain left to be had by going to a > threaded model? Perhaps Apache using a task-per-connection model is > _more_ scalable than a lot of other potential solutions, as well as > being easier to code and debug than a threaded server? This is a year or so old, but I thought it was a good read http://lists.free.net.ph/pipermail/php/2002-June/000028.html _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list