From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 24 17:21:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C05637B42C for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 17:21:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 53678 invoked by uid 100); 25 Apr 2001 00:21:31 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15078.6283.75950.909160@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:21:31 -0500 To: "Hervey Wilson" Cc: "Mark Giglio" , Subject: Re: hotmail converted from freeBSD In-Reply-To: <000d01c0cd1a$83109640$0101a8c0@chillipepper> References: <15077.62126.88738.629586@guru.mired.org> <000d01c0cd1a$83109640$0101a8c0@chillipepper> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hervey Wilson types: > Developing a full-blown web server on Win9x wouldn't be a Good Thing (TM). > The "thread per socket" model is not the recommended solution for Windows > 2000 (see below). IIS does not use that model. [...] > Windows 2000 has an asynchronous IO subsystem that supports a model where a > pool of threads can wait on completion objects and the operating system > wakes threads as required to handle IO events. This is typically a more > scalable than the "thread per socket" model although it not for the faint > hearted developer ;) This sounds like a the "thread per socket" model generalized so that you have multiple threads waiting on one socket. Which leads to the question - where's the context for the socket go? I.e. - if I've processed the header of an HTTP request and am waiting on the data in the request to be available, where does the context information get stored? > Which leads me to ask a question: where can I find more information about > thread models for FreeBSD ? -stable gives you posix threads, and you start with the pthread manual page for information on that. -current is in the midst of rearranging all this, and you need to follow the appropriate developer mail lists for information on that, though the API will continue to be posix threads. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message