Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <40B60F56.701B7B46@dessent.net> Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 08:55:02 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Looking for new apache maintainer References: <20040525234836.GA2243@coe.bosbc.com> <40B53400.668ECCEF@dessent.net> <000b01c443cb$c6c0e950$78d96f83@robinson.cam.ac.uk> <40B5B751.9EB8E456@dessent.net> <40B60115.CF02EAF3@dessent.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com 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/