On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Kirk Haines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Linux (and some other *nixes), there's a funky little thing that
> happens when a process that is bound to a socket is forked.
>
> All of the forked processes are also bound to the socket, and the
> kernel will distribute connections between them.  It's a low cost way
> to load balance between workers on a machine that is running an OS
> which will support it.
>

Prefork servers should be fairly portable.  Any reason why you aren't trying
this on other platforms?

-- 
Tony Arcieri
medioh.com
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