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Date:      Sat, 20 Apr 2002 15:26:56 -0400
From:      "Simon" <simon@optinet.com>
To:        "James Jeffrey" <james@jgj.org.uk>, "Tom Samplonius" <tom@sdf.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-isp@freebsd.org" <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Apache 2 MPMs
Message-ID:  <20020420191940.8F9BE37B41A@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10204201111470.22453-100000@misery.sdf.com>

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Some of our servers do over 1.3TB a month, avg request is 8kB
I can't wait for FBSD 5.x, hopefully threads are much better then.
1.3.x Apache eats way too much RAM, but oh well, it's free :-)

-Simon

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:15:28 -0700 (PDT), Tom Samplonius wrote:

>
>  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
>> 
>> 
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