How is a persistent database connection handled then? e.g. in the mysql module?
Apache 1.x pre-creates a number of server processes. Each process handles a certain number of requests (one at a time), and then dies. It is then replaced with an another server process. The number of processes can vary depending on the load and the configuration.
Database connections (and other resources) are persistent on the per-server-process level. What this means that an open connection in one server process cannot be reused from within another server process. When using PHP with IIS, on the other hand, you only have one process and only one set of persistent connections. Since creating a 100% thread safe PHP (PHP meaning the core engine plus the libraries) is practically impossible, I would say that PHP will go the FastCGI route, even on Windows. Bye, Ivan -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
