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Date:      Thu, 03 Apr 1997 15:54:17 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Bakul Shah <bakul@torrentnet.com>
Cc:        Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl>, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers)
Subject:   Re: apache like preforking apps and high loads 
Message-ID:  <199704032354.PAA05634@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Apr 1997 11:53:34 EST." <199704031653.LAA20772@chai.plexuscom.com> 

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>> >When looking at Apacha like applications, one often sees extermely high
>> >load averages. Apache preforks a number of processes that all block
>> >on accept(). When a request comes in, all process are woken up and the
>> >scheduler chooses one of the now runnable processes taht will succeed in
>> >the accept(). The other go back to sleep.
>> 
>>    Not any more. I changed this a few days ago. Now only one process is
>> woken up.
>
>Fairness is probably not an issue when an app. consists of a number
>of anonymous servers but in general one would want to make sure that
>if N processes are waiting on accept() on the same socket, no one
>process is starved of accepting.  How do you ensure that?

   The processes blocked on accept are handled in a round-robin fashion,
oldest first.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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