Re: [TCLUG:16088] High-load websites

[Scott <pope@ossuary.net>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Luke Francl wrote:

> Also, for very high demand websites, Apache may not cut it due to the fact
> that it is not threaded. Apache pre-forks child web servers, which is
> good, but under heavy load, Apache has no choice but to do expensive
> fork() system calls. 

     While true for the 1.3.x series, 2.0 is addressing that
issue and will run in a multiprocess/multithread mode on boxes
with posix thread support.

Scott
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