Re:The Architecture of Open Source Applications: Nginx
by WildUtah on Monday November 23, 2015 @08:14PM
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"forking and threads are basically the same thing"
It's nowhere near that simple. You can fork lightweight like threads or heavy. One of the terrible things about Apache performance was all the heavy forking on every single request for generated pages. That was back when it was really expensive.
It's nowhere near that simple. You can fork lightweight like threads or heavy. One of the terrible things about Apache performance was all the heavy forking on every single request for generated pages. That was back when it was really expensive.