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Re: Looking for new apache maintainer
Andrew DeFaria wrote:
> When you start Apache you can specify how many subprocesses to run. Thus
> start up can be expensive. And I know that Apache will start new
> processes if need be - presumably if you have a lot of hits. But for us
> relatively low hit guys I think we can live with the once in a while
> [re]startup costs of Apache and the occasional additional sluggishness
> when Apache needs to allocate another subprocess on those rare times
> when our site is getting a lot of hits.
There's also the issue of switching context between processes vs.
threads. On a heavily loaded server the thread model should be much
more efficient under Windows. However as you point out on a lightly
loaded server it's all academic as the difference would be nearly
undetectable.
> Would you suspect that you could get Apache 2.x to use threads under Cygwin?
Yes, but I have not tried.
> I had run my site on XP using Cygwin and Apache. For a while I ran the
> native version. Then switched to the Cygwin version, then eventually to
> ...
> pigheaded and has disallowed the usage of "unauthorized" software such
> as Cygwin so currently I'm stuck. But I'm hoping that will change.
Okay, I'll take that as an enthusiastic request for an apache2 package.
Brian
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