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Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:56:40 -0700
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD a good choice for high performance webservers?
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On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 05:48:38PM +0200, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:
> Hello questions,
> Ok, I know the subject is provoking, but it's absolutely intended
> as the Makefile of the Apache 2 port states:
> [... configure arguments...]
>                 --disable-threads \
>                 --with-mpm=3Dpreforked  # Apache's thread doesn't work
> well in FreeBSD
>=20
> As far as I can tell, this means FreeBSD is going to be left behind
> by
> Linux in the not too distant future (i.e. when Apache 2 gets
> released)
> cause Linux for sure will work with the threaded MPMs which are
> obviously faster than the preforked approach [1] in terms of real
> world HTTP performance. I for myself would really LOVE to use the
> perchild module to have each VHOST running under a different UID
> (needs
> lots of RAM but considering what possibilities this introduces[2],
> I'm
> very willing to go buy that RAM especially with the current RAM
> prices)
> for which the FreeBSD support looks pretty bad if threaded Apache
> doesn't work...

Be careful what you assume is "obvious"..I seem to recall there being
performance problems with that design model.

Kris

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