Re: Linus on Linux, Apache and Threads

Tony Gale (gale@syntax.dera.gov.uk)
Fri, 23 Apr 1999 10:30:59 +0100 (BST)

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. You can then dynamically create/join groups
of threads as per demand (up to a limit), returning them to the pool
when they have finished.

-tony

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