From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 26 10:32: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gamma.root-servers.ch (gamma.root-servers.ch [195.49.62.126]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D2C937B434 for ; Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:32:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 74379 invoked from network); 26 Sep 2001 17:32:00 -0000 Received: from dclient217-162-128-224.hispeed.ch (HELO athlon550) (217.162.128.224) by 0 with SMTP; 26 Sep 2001 17:32:00 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 19:35:59 +0200 From: Gabriel Ambuehl X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.53bis) Educational Organization: BUZ Internet Services X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <147171186242.20010926193559@buz.ch> To: Kris Kennaway Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: FreeBSD a good choice for high performance webservers? In-Reply-To: <20010926095640.C86198@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <60164745040.20010926174838@buz.ch> <20010926095640.C86198@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Kris, Wednesday, September 26, 2001, 6:56:40 PM, you wrote: >> very willing to go buy that RAM especially with the current RAM >> prices) >> for which the FreeBSD support looks pretty bad if threaded Apache >> doesn't work... > Be careful what you assume is "obvious"..I seem to recall there > being performance problems with that design model. Personally, I don't think a threaded server will help you much in most cases todays as the machines are that fast that they can work with tons of connections (given they got enough RAM in order to do so in a fork() environment) but the real problem today is the massive use of dynamic content even where it really doesn't make any sense to do so. Not being able to use threading is (from a real world $ performance point of view) more a PR issue than anything else, IMHO. If you need to handle thousands of concurrent HTTP connections, you probably shouldn't be using Apache but thttpd or boa or [...] anyway. But still, my main concern of not being able to use perchild persists. Best regards, Gabriel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQEVAwUBO7ID8sZa2WpymlDxAQHU0AgAiO1uBoiq8h5ttaBZ572xnFv2FA3etJW9 BMZUz6DEboFlEkDWnPLAFf2xbzxZkLuKcH/uhjb6xWfyWV/POTXoEyJcyT2yw3eF pXozQDJpPwM5PRZHWKYLr+zqvxgv2bcpGK4PvPzbVpNL1+sI4Xtbeo9jPUt8Clni 1C9uWc2UiNhDjlz3UeMLd1zV6TDmOl97trjXHb0F72jS7kkcld9wcrZ+WHvreLho Kf82m5ylte7Z8BMi1W1Xyy/41MdYm7HnuHp3V6ui+wg4WyQHX1B44+pQFEZoRBRR e9qasPfwUQYxgUXLDvhv+e7Q7zO5ioJq1QT+5E07MXN1jAiyXENo4w== =NcKD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message