On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 04:24:23PM -0700, Arjun wrote: > > > My senior project group didn't get around to implementing > > "pre-forking", so that should be interesting to implement! Here's what > > Christos had > > to say about it: "Means that once a preforked child is done you can > > either wait(2) for it and end it or you can put it back of the list > > of available processes so that it can handle more requests." It's kind > > of a confusing concept to me! > Yeah, it does seem confusing to actually implement. >
It makes a lot of sense if the daemon is slow to start up and does not keep state between requests - simply putting the daemon instance back on the prefork queue saves time and load. The apache http daemon has been doing this for a long time... -- Brett Lymn -- Sent from my NetBSD device. "We are were wolves", "You mean werewolves?", "No we were wolves, now we are something else entirely", "Oh"
