Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 12:48:46 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Network Coordinator <nc@ai.net> Cc: Arjan.deVet@nl.cis.philips.com, FREEBSD-HACKERS-L <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org>, Guido.VanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com Subject: Re: Apache + FreeBSD 2.0 benchmark results (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950509124729.26690D-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950508165100.28057A-100000@aries.ai.net>
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On Mon, 8 May 1995, Network Coordinator wrote:
>
> Question here - Isn't the CERN httpd server [in standalone mode] an
> on-demand forker?
Yes. So are the Apache, WN and pre-1.4 NCSA servers. I needed a
name for servers which forked off a new process for each incoming
request, and just "forking server" was too easily confused with
"pre-forking server", so I called them "demand forking". Dunno if
that's the correct term or not, but I'm sticking with it. ;-)
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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