This is more of a question for Sebastian (the author) than the rest of us, though mailing the list is indeed the right thing to do.
I'm under the impression that Sebastian doesn't test suPHP on systems using a threaded MPM, but tests it under systems using the prefork MPM. Regardless of what people think, threading on UNIX is still fairly new as far as general application adoption goes. Sure, Solaris's threading model is fast and rock-solid, but as I'm sure you know, the number of threaded applications is fairly low (compared to fork) on UNIX. Also, you have to ask yourself: is switching to a threaded MPM *really* something you want to do on a hosting environment? Historically hosting environments have CGIs and other scripted languages that were written purely with the forked environment in mind (e.g. classic Apache 1.3 or older). I am very well aware of the benefits of threads, but I often wonder why someone would consider that model for a hosting environment. It's still too new of a technology, IMHO. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:36:24PM +0200, Fili wrote: > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > Yes, there are numerous posts on this list in the past describing > > problems with mpm-worker and PHP. suPHP does not appear to be > > responsible for the issues, although one individual did find a signal > > masking issue which may be specific to suPHP. > > > > > > Thanks for your reply. > I've read both threads you're referring to, however there doesn't seem > to be a conclusive yes/no. > The few things I can find about the subject is contradicting. > > Maybe nobody knows if suPHP is threading safe. > It seems to me as an important question though. > > Fili > > > _______________________________________________ > suPHP mailing list > suPHP@lists.marsching.biz > http://lists.marsching.com/mailman/listinfo/suphp > _______________________________________________ suPHP mailing list suPHP@lists.marsching.biz http://lists.marsching.com/mailman/listinfo/suphp
