On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM, tim robertson<tim...@email.com> wrote: > Apache HTTP Server should be Event-driven by default, instead of using > Processes/Threads. Alot of other http web servers are outperforming Apache > because they use Events because this reduces cpu and memory usage. Events > will help Apache server handle lots of concurrent connections because > currently Apache cannot handle 10,000 concurrent connections on a low > end single core server without Apache crashing or running very slow. I know > Apache has a threaded mode but this still uses alot more memory and CPU and > supports less concurrent connections than other web servers that use an > event-driven architecture. If Apache used Events it will fix this c10k > problem for low end servers.
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/event.html> more work to be done in trunk, patches welcome :) Thanks Paul