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It's slow because of its design, i.e. spawning a new process for each request; so it's not because of the OS.
by ekr 8y ago
It's slow because of its design, i.e. spawning a new process for each request; so it's not because of the OS.
- tannhaeuser 8y agoI'm not sure that sentence makes much sense though since the O/S is responsible for creating processes after all. There's an inherent overhead in the POSIX process model; but there's also overhead in the kind of manual memory management needed in support for evented I/O considering typical mixed web server workloads.