That would help remove the perception of a suggestion towards threading. But what I was really looking for was something to help me choose whether or not to use threads at all. I couldn't find this clear answer in the perl documentation. Geoff suggested that if stability was a priority and performance was not, particularly, then I might as well stay away from threads both in apache and in perl. Later I found a tip for installing apache2 for FreeBSD (in the apache docs) that warned against using threads on FreeBSD in any event. So I made what seems now to be an obvious decision to not use 'em.
I've heard similar things about FreeBSD and threads.
See if it's any better now. Go to:But I think it would be better if the pointer you _do_ have in the docs, which I quoted, saying that threqads should be avoided unless there's a really good reason why not, could be emphasized or clarified more.
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/install/install.html#Configuring_and_Installing_Prerequisites
which takes you to:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/install/install.html#Prerequisites
which mentions all the probs in the prefork mpm section. Obviously the threaded-mpm requires threads.
If you have an idea how to make things better please post a patch against the pod source (use cvs or grab the source following the [src] button at the right top corner of the page you are on). Thanks.
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