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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Simon <simon@optinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Apache 2 MPMs
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  And you expect Apache 2.x to use less RAM?  I really doubt it.

Tom

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Simon wrote:

> 
> 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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