On Sat, Oct 23, 1999, pt bb wrote:
Please forgive (and inform) me if there is a better
place to ask this -- I'm new to Apache.
I intend to write a web application which needs to
stream data through long-lived connections, both
SSL-authenticated and unauthenticated. I haven't
decided yet whether I should tunnel my stream in SSL,
use a mime multipart response, or just use a really
long and slow HTTP response to encode a stream back
from the server.
I've briefly looked at the Apache source and it seems
that Apache does IO synchronously, and that a single
thread serves an entire request to completion. If
this is correct, then each open SSL connection needs
its own thread -- a perf disaster for my application.
Under Unix Apache doesn't use threads. It uses pre-forked processes. But
you're right: in each process Apache synchronously serves the entire request.
So if you have lots of long-running requests you need lots of pre-forked
Apache processes. But there are alternative HTTP servers which use (less
resource consuming) threading or even asynchronous I/O or at least multiplexed
I/O, of course. Just use some of these servers if you don't need special
Apache features. Whether these servers support SSL is a different questions...
Ralf S. Engelschall
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