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To: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>
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Subject: Re: apache like preforking apps and high loads 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 1997 15:57:08 +0200."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 07:27:26 -0800
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>When looking at Apacha like applications, one often sees extermely high
>load averages. Apache preforks a number of processes that all block
>on accept(). When a request comes in, all process are woken up and the
>scheduler chooses one of the now runnable processes taht will succeed in
>the accept(). The other go back to sleep.

   Not any more. I changed this a few days ago. Now only one process is
woken up.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project