Interesting link. I'm still wondering if there isn't more performance that can be shaken out of Linux by proper analytical design. Ryan Ware wrote: > >>-----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 _______________________________________________ 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