On Oct 17, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Mark Maunder wrote:
So I'm sticking with prefork. Also, my requests average around 2937 B/request which means they're serviced very quickly even for slow clients, so I think I can get away without implementing a proxy accelerator for now, but something I'll keep reevaluating.
Even with only HTTP headers in the response you can easily get 5-10 times as many busy "proxy threads" as "backend threads".
With for example perlbal[1] you can also cheaply get Keep-Alive support between both the client and the proxy and between the proxy and the backend server without using extra backend processes.
[1] http://www.danga.com/perlbal/ http://develooper.com/talks/ http://develooper.com/talks/Real-World-Scalability-MySQL-2007-r12.pdf - ask -- http://develooper.com/ - http://askask.com/