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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 10:00:37 -0700
From:      "Ben Hyatt" <benjaminhyatt@hotmail.com>
To:        "Mark Giglio" <markgiglio@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: hotmail converted from freeBSD
Message-ID:  <OE8h9vXsFFsAitVGeSJ00003fc0@hotmail.com>
References:  <20010424160312.14367.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com>

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> Hi i heard this happened and one of their main
> business drivers was that "The cgi
> "one-process-per-socket" model, under FreeBSD, is very
> inefficient."

Basically each new request = new process.
On a heavy site, this can get very expensive.

> I am interested in FreeBSD and how it compares to
> other systems like win2000, esp because I would like
> to build a big powerful super computer and am
> investigating options for my os.

> first of all, (please humbly pardon my ignorance) what
> does the comment re sockets mean.  secondly, is this
> true about bsd.  and thirdly, can it be improved, or
> is it a property of cgi and fixed?

Berkely sockets.... Read about it here...
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~bentlema/unix/advipc/ipc.html

Um.. take a look at Apache 2.0 - Apache 2.0 supports a hybrid multiprocess,
multithreaded mode.

> Thanks for you time.
> Mark

-Ben

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