On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> > > > This stuff came up while Justin and Aaron were performance testing
> > > > mod_mbox -- right now you can double the requests per second simply
> > > > by recompiling with --disable-threads.
> >
> > Wow, which MPM are you using? That is actually quite a suprise to me as Apache 2.0
>performance is
> > close to that of Apache 1.3 (on AIX at least) which does not use pool locking or
>buffer locking for
> > file i/o.
>
> We are currently using prefork because pthread is completely useless at
> this point. Hopefully, the signals stuff gets fixed soon... Actually,
> on FreeBSD, threaded MPMs are disabled, but no one tells APR, so it
> defines APR_HAS_THREADS - we need to fix that. I may submit a patch for
> that - just add --disable-threads to APRs configure for these platforms?
Uh, on FreeBSD, APR doesn't allow threads at all. We have specifically
disabled threads on FreeBSD in the APR configure script, which is why
Apache won't use the threaded MPMs.
Ryan
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