Re: high performance configs [was: Blocked pipe to qmail-queue]

[Peter van Dijk]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 04:52:50PM -0700, Sean Reifschneider wrote:
[snip]
> The first thing to do about this if you want to implement it is to
> find out exactly WHY apache chose to do it that way.  What were they
> hoping to resolve with that, and did it actually achieve the desired
> results?

In Apache, pre-forking is useful because it is one big fat whale.

If you take a look at WN, for example (http://www.wnserver.org/), that
doesn't pre-fork, you'll see that it shows similar or better
performance.

Greetz, Peter
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