Greg, this is incredibly antagonistic. Regardless, as you have admitted in the
past, threaded can not do graceful restarts on lightly loaded machines. That is
completely bogus, and is the reason I do not believe we should be advocating
threaded as a viable MPM.
Ryan
On Tuesday 07 August 2001 10:51, Greg Ames wrote:
> Ryan Bloom wrote:
> > I have a problem with tagging the way the tree is right now. The
> > threaded MPM is completely bogus,
>
> Bull. After fixing the breakage you introduced late in June and early
> July, it's working pretty well actually.
>
> > and I don't believe that the group should be
> > encouraging it's use in production servers. As the code stands right
> > now, the threaded MPM can not be gracefully restarted or shutdown on a
> > lightly-hit server.
>
> You obviously haven't tried it in a while.
>
> > I see two ways to fix this. Hold the tag/roll until the worker MPM is
> > finished, hopefully sometime this week, or switch the default MPM to
> > prefork.
> >
> > I want to stress that I am perfectly fine with just switching the default
> > MPM to the prefork MPM. Leaving the default at threaded, makes people
> > think that we expect this MPM to work properly, which we really don't.
>
> I expect threaded to work properly, except for two issues:
>
> * not getting core dumps on Linux, and
> * processes staying in mutex land with a "G" in the scoreboard on a
> server with no incoming requests (yawn).
>
> If anybody has problems with the threaded MPM on servers that actually
> have incoming http requests, please let us know.
>
> Greg
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