Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:48:47 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chuck Lever <> | Subject | Re: Linus on Linux, Apache and Threads |
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On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Tony Gale wrote: > On 23-Apr-99 Chris Wedgwood wrote: > >> It ought to one of two things: > >> > >> - Use a thread to handle each request, all in one process. > > > > No, that would be insane. Perhaps use threads the way it now uses > > processes, but not one thread per request -- that would be death as > > far as performance goes. > > Depends. You can use a thread pool and queue requests which are then > picked up by the threads.
how do you propose to do that efficiently? is there a nice way in Unix/Linux to hand out incoming network requests to a pool of threads?
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