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Slow requests are not an issue as all connections are handled by the same process. If a connection gets idling or slow, then it does not take almost any resourc

by andris9 10y ago

Slow requests are not an issue as all connections are handled by the same process. If a connection gets idling or slow, then it does not take almost any resources (compared to apache where a separate process is spawned to handle that request)

xorcist 10y ago
> compared to apache where a separate process is spawned That's not how Apache works. If your glibc is >= 2.3.2 (we're talking 2004 or newer) the default mode is epoll ("event" MPM), otherwise you will get a threadpool ("worker" MPM), and failing that you will get a processpool ("prefork" MPM). It will never spawn a process to handle a request, unless you forcibly enable prefork mode with a pool size of 1.
- andris9 10y ago
  Sure, I agree that my knowledge about Apache internals might be severely outdated. And I can't really blame Apache either because it's a very small box, in a larger one it might have quickly stabilized