From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 11 15:31:32 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id PAA17336 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 May 1995 15:31:32 -0700 Received: from vinkku.hut.fi (root@vinkku.hut.fi [130.233.245.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id PAA17319 for ; Thu, 11 May 1995 15:31:26 -0700 Received: from lk-hp-20.hut.fi (lk-hp-20.hut.fi [130.233.247.32]) by vinkku.hut.fi (8.6.11/8.6.7) with ESMTP id BAA26378; Fri, 12 May 1995 01:30:33 +0300 From: Juha Inkari Received: (inkari@localhost) by lk-hp-20.hut.fi (8.6.11/8.6.7) id BAA29734; Fri, 12 May 1995 01:30:30 +0300 Message-Id: <199505112230.BAA29734@lk-hp-20.hut.fi> Subject: Re: Apache + FreeBSD 2.0 benchmark results To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 01:30:30 +0200 (EETDST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw Reply-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <9505111732.AA00778@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at May 11, 95 11:32:28 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 813 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > from. What you have is an I/O Dispatching server according to what I've > been taught . I guess the point is differentiating servers in how they perform multi-tasking. The server could dispatch several requests to different tasks or it could process the requests syncronously consuming several tasks for one request. Here goes yet another set of names: - Repeated forking heavyweight processing server. - Multiple forked heavyweight processing server. - Lightweight processing server. Also, multi-threaded or asyncronous could be added for clarification in some contexts. The "lightweight processing server" says nothing about the time of creation of the processing tasks, or about the "lightness" of the thread of control, except that it should not be as resource consuming that the "heavyweight" model.