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 > > -------- > Matt Weisberg > Weisberg Consulting, Inc. > [email protected] > www.weisberg.net > ofc. 248.685.1970 > cell 248.705.1950 > fax 248.769.5963 > > _______________________________________________ > ifolder-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/ifolder-dev > -------- Matt Weisberg Weisberg Consulting, Inc. [email protected] www.weisberg.net ofc. 248.685.1970 cell 248.705.1950 fax 248.769.5963 _______________________________________________ ifolder-dev mailing list [email protected] http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/ifolder-dev
