From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Apr 20 12:10:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [207.200.153.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6717C37B404 for ; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 12:10:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 16yzP1-0006dt-00; Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:16:03 -0700 Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:15:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: James Jeffrey Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Apache 2 MPMs In-Reply-To: <9D0D9274-5485-11D6-A332-003065A1F05E@jgj.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org First of all, how many of the modules you need will be threadsafe? Many of the PHP add-ons are not thread safe. Unless you have servers pushing out more than 500GB/month, I wouldn't worry about the difference between prefork and prefork/thread. Tom On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, James Jeffrey wrote: > Hello, > > I have just started a new job for an ISP currently using some Linux > servers. I want to start to move them across to FreeBSD, but I'm > concerned that Apache 2 will use the prefork MPM on our favourite > platform rather than the newer prefork/thread combination one... Does > anyone know: > > Why this is? > When it will be fixed? > What performance penalty this will cause against, for example, Linux? > How good is the new MPM? > > thanks, > > James > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message