On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:02:49AM -0600, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: > I'm referring to shrinking or growing the pool of threads/processes as > needed. > > If worker grows threads as needed, or even has to spawn only one more > process > to create dozens of threads, this is goodness.
But is it a "huge win" (your words)? What ratio do you observe for number of forks in relation to number of incoming requests? With processes being pre-forked ahead of demand, how large a problem does this pose in practice?
