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From: Jim Jagielski <jim@jaguNET.com>
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Subject: Re: story posted
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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 10:56:34 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Bill Stoddard" at Feb 05, 2003 10:49:25 AM
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Bill Stoddard wrote:
> 
> Running a threaded mpm on Linux is just not interesting today. The 
> memory footprint of the server is reduced, but so is the performance 
> (requests per second). Even worse, with the current Linux pthread 
> implementation, the threaded MPM does not provide appreciably better 
> scalability (ability to support large numbers of concurrent clients) 
> than the prefork MPM. And just forget being able to efficiently use SMP 
> architectures with the threaded MPM.
> 

Agreed. For some/many, prefork is just fine. Also, depending on the
OS, worker may or may not be a 'Wow maker'. As you said, under Linux
it's not a big diff, under other OSs (like Solaris), the difference
is appreciable.

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