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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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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