On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 14:11, Zeno Davatz <zdav...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Apache on Windows serves all requests from a single process. > > Apache on Linux does not do that?
Nope. The worker and event MPMs are hybrids: serving requests from many processes, where each process has many threads. And if all processes are busy, Apache will simply spin up more. >> The Ruby interpreter is not thread-safe so mod_ruby creates a Big Mutex >> whenever it needs to run. Thus on Windows, with its single-process >> model, mod_ruby can only serve one request at a time. > > So you say, that mod_ruby on Windows can _not_ leverage its power > because Apache on Windows is a single thread process? Effectively single-threaded when mod_ruby is serving a request, yes.
