Re: thread locking within apr file io

[Greg Ames]

Greg Ames wrote:
> 

> > That said, I guess the threaded mpm really isn't ready for prime time,
> > unless:
> > * you are prepared to tune it (we can help), or
> > * you know that your download times are all pretty uniform.
> >
> 
> I should probably elaborate some on the tuning, in case folks want to
> play.  Basic stuff first, more advanced stuff after more sleep:
>

D'oh! forgot to mention the simplest way to bypass this problem: set
MaxRequestsPerChild to 0.  If you can get by with that, you're done,
ignore the rest.
 
> The threaded MPM currently uses MaxRequestsPerChild just like Apache 1.3
> and 2.0 prefork do, tha it, when a process hits the magic number, it
> quits accepting new connections.  But since ThreadsPerChild will usually
> be > 1 , one thread can be serving something that takes a really long
> time, 

[much stuff deleted here]

Greg