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Date:      Tue, 24 Apr 2001 19:21:31 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        "Hervey Wilson" <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com>
Cc:        "Mark Giglio" <markgiglio@yahoo.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: hotmail converted from freeBSD
Message-ID:  <15078.6283.75950.909160@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <000d01c0cd1a$83109640$0101a8c0@chillipepper>
References:  <15077.62126.88738.629586@guru.mired.org> <000d01c0cd1a$83109640$0101a8c0@chillipepper>

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Hervey Wilson <herveyw@dynamic-cast.com> 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.

	<mike
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