On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Bryan Scott wrote:
Forkserver spawns and forks a bunch of qpsmtpd processes ahead of time instead of the shell having to spawn a new perl process each time a connection comes in.
Not quite - that's prefork :-)Forkserver forks on every connection, but has the perl code pre-parsed in memory which is a lot of the overhead when using tcpserver.
Matt.
