> ??? I didn't get this? Aren't these pre-forked
> processes handle requests using threads internally?
> Say you configure apache to pre-fork 5 server
> processes, what you are saying implies that you can
> only handle 5 concurrent requests?????? can you please
> explain this more?
That's exactly what it means. Apache on Unix is non-threaded.
> Actually, I was asking the low-level information, I
> mean something like web server receives the request,
> hands this over to mod_php, that requests a thread
> from the worker threads, so on so forth...
Well, since there are no threads involved here there is no pool of worker
threads or anything like that. You simply have a process that grabs a
requests, branches off to mod_php/mod_perl and sends the result back.
-Rasmus
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