I was under the impression that it wasn't portable. If it is, that
would be great.

Evan

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Tony Arcieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
>
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