I guess it would be interesting to do some benchmarks.  Although if the 
difference is minimal and you use dedicated hosts/VMs, then it sounds like the 
issue is now moot.  Thanks.

Matt

On Dec 3, 2009, at 1:23 AM, Balakrishnan KalIdas wrote:

> Matt, it is more a performance/scalability related option. We have seen 
> iFolder perform well in Worker mode, as apache creates worker threads for 
> works (since iFolder does a lot of work), while in pre-fork mode there are 
> more processes and apache uses shared-memory more causing it to scale less.
> 
> But apache has made a lot of improvement to bring the pre-fork mode and 
> worker mode to equal levels, so it really does not matter much now.
> 
> Kalis
> 
>>>> Matt Weisberg  12/03/09 9:50 AM >>>
> 
> Question..
> I'm running Apache in pre-fork mode, but I did see the docs recommend worker. 
>  Why is that and what will happen if I continue to run it in pre-fork?
> 
> Matt
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