On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <free...@jdc.parodius.com> wrote: > I don't use worker MPM on any of our boxes, we actually use ITK MPM > solely because of the hosting nature of what we do. I've actually never > seen worker MPM in use on any *IX machine I've been on or administrated, > only prefork. The Apache documentation even mentions that "if you want > stability or compatibility, prefork is the choice", while "if you want > scalability, worker is a better choice"[1]. These sorts of quotes often > shock me given what year it is. :-) >
I've used both worker and event MPMs in production on high volume sites for > 4 years now, running on FreeBSD 7, with no problems. I think you are cherry picking the quotes from httpd's 2.0 documentation, which is actually an old bit of software now - it has just been voted EOL. The current stable (2.2) docs actually say: "sites that need a great deal of scalability can choose to use a threaded MPM like worker or event, while sites requiring stability or compatibility with older software can use a prefork" Event and worker have no issues unless you run non thread safe modules, or modules which use libraries which are not thread safe, eg PHP (more commonly, a PHP extension). Cheers Tom _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"