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• Why not use multi-process for this? Why would you WANT to run a multi-process web server?

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1. Submitted By: toccata — October 6, 2006 not yet rated   + -

   Because if you have a high performance webserver handling thousands of requests, if each of them spawns a new process this creates a lot of overhead. Threads are cheaper.

3. Submitted By: stinky — October 6, 2006 not yet rated   + -

   The reason you use a multi-process web server is for robustness in the face of failure. On a multithreaded server one thread can wipe out all the rest when it crashes the server. In a multi-process server only the offending process goes down. As far as speed is concerned most multi-process servers allow you to spawn at the begining any number of processes to handle requests so speed differences on a running system are not much different between multi-threading and multi-process servers.

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