Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-29 Thread Sander Striker
On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 03:00, Sami Tikka wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: About re-opening 1.3 tree: I'm not sure I understand what is the big deal. This is open source. You want to work on 1.3, go do it. Your patches are not getting into ASF repository? Create your own. There are other

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-28 Thread Sami Tikka
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I popped off and looked at 2.0 code again just now and I can tell you right now it's (still) the filtering that's killing it. I am a novice (written 2 modules for apache 1.3 and 1 for 2.0) but I have examined the apache 2.0 code quite a lot during the last year and I

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-18 Thread Jeff Trawick
Igor Kovalenko wrote: I am just lurking here really... but a while back I did try to post some patches dealing with QNX support to both Apache and PHP. In my humble opinion, there was a world of difference in attitude that I have encountered in those two projects. The attitude of PHP folks was

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread TOKILEY
Geez... it's nice to discover everybody hasn't just dropped dead! I see a lot of healthy 'things to do' coming out of this thread that could inject a lot of life back into the development... which is what the various threads the past few days have all been about. Action items?... Facts to

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Kyle Hamilton
bravo! - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 11:05 PM Subject: Re: consider reopening 1.3 Geez... it's nice to discover everybody hasn't just dropped dead! I see a lot of healthy

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread TOKILEY
Last benchmarks I have currently are quite old. I think the last time I ( just a USER of Apache ) did any serious benchmarking was 2.0.40 or something... but the results were right inline with what Rasmus just posted. Apache 2.0 pre-fork was a pig compared to Apache 1.3 prefork. If I get some

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread TOKILEY
Fantastic! So Rasmus has just uncovered some 'other' problem then which means (only) mod_perl is a pig on 2.0 or something? I guess that's better than the core being the problem. I'd like to see this get put to bed once and for all and eliminate it from the 2.0 migration discussion(s). Got

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Matthieu Estrade
You are right, apache 2.0 pre fork is apache 1.3 prefork... But one nice feature of apache 2.0 is to provide other mpm more powerfull. worker mpm is apache 1.3. If you look all benchmark of web server, you will see that all are now providing threaded architectures because it's more stable and

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 04:40:02AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got any real numbers? Completely unconfigured, out of the box configs; Apache 1.3.29; Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 2.54841 seconds Complete requests: 1000 Failed requests:0 Write errors:

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread TOKILEY
that. In the meantime... while all this is getting hashed out... the subject of the thread is 'consider reopening 1.3'. Whatever else is going on with 2.0... I say +1 to that. Personally... I've always wondered how fast 1.3 could be with full 'sendfile'. Later... Kevin In a message dated 11/17/2003 4:09

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Henning Brauer
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 05:02:12PM -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: And a threaded mpm is just not an option. Most humans are simply not smart enough to write threadsafe code. this is an interesting point. I believe the moving towards threading is wrong. I also find apache2 strongly suspective

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread TOKILEY
Hi Colm... Slainte!... Cead mile failte romhat! Go raibh maith agat! Wow... I believe everything you are saying... and please don't take this the wrong way... but I'm not sure a test that only runs for 1.1 second and 1000 requests with 100 clients being launched ( on the same machine? ) is a

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 06:00:09AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Colm... Slainte!... Cead mile failte romhat! Go raibh maith agat! Agus tú féin a cháirde, chaitfidh mé rá b'éidir gurb seo on t-aon deis a bhéis gam cumarsáid le Gaeilgeoir so comh-théacs seo, ach mar a deartaí áfach -

Re: 1.3 Wishlist: (Was: Re: consider reopening 1.3)

2003-11-17 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jim Jagielski wrote: So a useful topic is: What is *missing* in 1.3 that needs to be addressed. What are the features/additions that the disenfranchised 1.3 developers want to add to 1.3... How about support for chunked

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Graham Leggett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- FACT?: Apache 2.0 pre-fork ( which is the only thing still available on some of the best platforms ) is SLOWER than Apache 1.3 pre-fork. -- This gives someone who might be stuck with one of those pre-fork only platforms, or anyone who just WANTS to stick with

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Jim Jagielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geez... it's nice to discover everybody hasn't just dropped dead! I see a lot of healthy 'things to do' coming out of this thread that could inject a lot of life back into the development... which is what the various threads the past few days have all been

RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
Message- From: Bill Stoddard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 6:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: consider reopening 1.3 Peter J. Cranstone wrote: In today's environment it's all about 2 words - price/performance. Show me that Apache 2.x can outperform 1.x

RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 7:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: consider reopening 1.3 Bill, I've done some thinking about this - price/performance is only part of the equation. Someone needs to take a step back and see where Apache wants to *be* in two years time. I agree

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Igor Kovalenko
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: Too bad all these supposedly-disenfranchised people aren't around to review 1.3 fixes. 1.3 would be healthier if they were. And it is the reason for why they are not around that is in question here. Why wouldn't there be plenty of hackers around

Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Andre Schild
People will move Apache 1.x to this platform because there is virtually NO migration cost (i.e. recoding modules etc) and they get a performance boost and while replacing an aging infrastructure. 12 million user on the move - make it easy for them, buy a cheap AMD Opteron and optimize and improve

RE: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
: consider reopening 1.3 People will move Apache 1.x to this platform because there is virtually NO migration cost (i.e. recoding modules etc) and they get a performance boost and while replacing an aging infrastructure. 12 million user on the move - make it easy for them, buy a cheap AMD Opteron

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Colm MacCarthaigh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:01:46AM -0700, Peter J. Cranstone wrote: Oh yes - forgot about v6... that's a must have for Apache. Is it available for 1.x? If not that would be the first feature to add. The KAME project has IPv6 patches for 1.3.* at ftp://ftp.kame.net/pub/kame/misc/ they

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Stoddard
Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:01:46AM -0700, Peter J. Cranstone wrote: Oh yes - forgot about v6... that's a must have for Apache. Is it available for 1.x? If not that would be the first feature to add. The KAME project has IPv6 patches for 1.3.* at

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Bill Stoddard wrote: Apache 1.4, an APR'ized version of Apache 1.3 (to pick up IPV6 and 64 bit support) with all the Windows specific code stripped out and source compatability (to the extent possible) with Apache 1.3 modules would probably see rapid uptake. I can't

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Glenn
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:31:55PM -0500, Bill Stoddard wrote: Apache 1.4, an APR'ized version of Apache 1.3 (to pick up IPV6 and 64 bit support) with all the Windows specific code stripped out and source compatability (to the extent possible) with Apache 1.3 modules would probably see

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Jim Jagielski
Glenn wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:31:55PM -0500, Bill Stoddard wrote: Apache 1.4, an APR'ized version of Apache 1.3 (to pick up IPV6 and 64 bit support) with all the Windows specific code stripped out and source compatability (to the extent possible) with Apache 1.3 modules would

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 17, 2003, at 1:31 PM, Bill Stoddard wrote: Colm MacCarthaigh wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 11:01:46AM -0700, Peter J. Cranstone wrote: Oh yes - forgot about v6... that's a must have for Apache. Is it available for 1.x? If not that would be the first feature to add. The KAME project has

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jim Jagielski wrote: Glenn wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:31:55PM -0500, Bill Stoddard wrote: Apache 1.4, an APR'ized version of Apache 1.3 (to pick up IPV6 and 64 bit support) with all the Windows specific code stripped out and source compatability (to

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Bill Stoddard
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Bill Stoddard wrote: Apache 1.4, an APR'ized version of Apache 1.3 (to pick up IPV6 and 64 bit support) with all the Windows specific code stripped out and source compatability (to the extent possible) with Apache 1.3 modules would probably see rapid

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 17, 2003, at 2:22 PM, Bill Stoddard wrote: In this economic environment (and perhaps this will turn out to be generally true from now on), companies are not making investments in IT unless they can get a proven and almost immediate return on that investment. Making the jump to Apache 2.0

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Nov 17, 2003, at 2:22 PM, Bill Stoddard wrote: In this economic environment (and perhaps this will turn out to be generally true from now on), companies are not making investments in IT unless they can get a proven and almost immediate return

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Andr Malo
* Rasmus Lerdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As someone working in a company like that, I can tell you definitively that this is not true. At least not here at the biggest web company in the world. *shrug* Big or not, if it's the only one, it can develop the stuff it needs itself. I

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 17, 2003, at 3:17 PM, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: As someone working in a company like that, I can tell you definitively that this is not true. At least not here at the biggest web company in the world. -Rasmus Well, I can certainly say that with respect to many, many of the clients I've

Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Graham Leggett
Jim Jagielski wrote: Look at the impact of not having 2.0 modules severely limited the acceptance of 2.0. Not having 1.4 modules will most certainly do the same*. If 1.4 == 1.3, binary-wise, then it's a non-issue; if not, it's a *major* issue. * Yes, part of the delay was due to porting, which

RE: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
: Jim Jagielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 12:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Antw: RE: consider reopening 1.3 Glenn wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:31:55PM -0500, Bill Stoddard wrote: Apache 1.4, an APR'ized version of Apache 1.3 (to pick up IPV6 and 64

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
At 07:32 PM 11/16/2003, Martin Kraemer wrote: ...only that tomorrow's apr might not be 100% compatible with today's. Think of mod_ssl's and mod_dav's problem (the apache_1.3 version). They must always add the apache_1.3 version number to their own version number to describe the API they require.

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Ben Hyde
+1 My only concern is that some scarce resource might be further dissipated by having multiple forks in progress. I had some sympathy when 2.0 was trying to get started that 1.3 was a competitor for attention; I don't think that's a problem any more. How audacious to be on 1.3? Time will

distcache (was RE: consider reopening 1.3)

2003-11-17 Thread Geoff Thorpe
On November 17, 2003 02:22 pm, Bill Stoddard wrote: application environments. Being able to eliminate 1 machine in 3 due to scalability improvements in 2.0 probably won't be a sufficient return on investment for most folks. A really kick-ass load balancing/active fail-over feature in mod_proxy

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-17 Thread Sander Striker
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 01:12, Glenn wrote: Ok, so Apache2 uptake is slower than desired for some (not all) on this list. That's only logical given the success and therefore inertia to stay with Apache 1.3. But there are more than a few other factors mentioned in recent threads that are

consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn
Ok, so Apache2 uptake is slower than desired for some (not all) on this list. That's only logical given the success and therefore inertia to stay with Apache 1.3. But there are more than a few other factors mentioned in recent threads that are contributing to Apache2 development stagnation.

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hamilton
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 1:12 AM Subject: consider reopening 1.3 Ok, so Apache2 uptake is slower than desired for some (not all) on this list. That's only logical given the success and therefore inertia to stay with Apache 1.3. But there are more than a few other

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Jeff Trawick
Glenn wrote: - lack of clear leadership and even basic direction At present I see most of the time volunteered by developers to be spent communicating with users on the bug db and trying to fix bugs. That sounds all well and good to me. If somebody wants something big implemented that they

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Jess Holle
I would not use this as an argument to re-open 1.3, but: The LDAP authentication module has a number of issues which have been languishing. I really cannot gripe as I haven't fixed any -- just found some, but for some of us this module has become critical. Apache 2 has incorporated LDAP

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn
Thanks for your response, Jeff. You present some excellent points and defenses and present worthy opinions. I agree that there are lots of thankless, non-sexy tasks that would help, but the core developers need more manpower. I am hoping to create new avenues for participation. My goal is to get

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: *** We need to get back many of the disenfranchised Apache 1.3 developers Who are these people? /me raises a hand People have suggested that we have fewer developers today because Apache 2 is too complex. That the crappy economy has reduced the

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Jeff Trawick
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: *** We need to get back many of the disenfranchised Apache 1.3 developers Who are these people? /me raises a hand Just compare the list of contributors today to 4 years ago if you want a list. diff knows no reasons. Too bad all these supposedly-disenfranchised people

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Graham Leggett
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: I also work for a large company with plenty of talented developers and thousands of production Apache-1.3 servers along with hundreds of custom Apache-1.3 modules. It will be years before I can even consider Apache2, given the architecture and API differences between the

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: Too bad all these supposedly-disenfranchised people aren't around to review 1.3 fixes. 1.3 would be healthier if they were. And it is the reason for why they are not around that is in question here. Why wouldn't there be plenty of hackers around for

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Graham Leggett wrote: I think the key thing is bugfixes compared to features and architecture changes. I am +1 on seeing bugfixes go into v1.3 - people are using it, and if it can work better, so be it. But to actively encourage people to add features or architecture

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Jeff Trawick
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: Too bad all these supposedly-disenfranchised people aren't around to review 1.3 fixes. 1.3 would be healthier if they were. And it is the reason for why they are not around that is in question here. Why wouldn't there be plenty

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Matthieu Estrade
PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:39 PM Subject: Re: consider reopening 1.3 Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: I also work for a large company with plenty of talented developers and thousands of production Apache-1.3 servers along with hundreds of custom Apache-1.3 modules

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jeff Trawick wrote: The point was not to blame anybody. Instead, I don't believe there are so many people as you imply. Many of the people who are no longer developing have moved on to other interests/work/etc. and have dropped out of httpd dev because of that. If

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 12:04:28PM -0800, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: Basically I see us back in the NCSA days right now. The ASF has mostly abandoned Apache1 and we are in that transition phase where people are looking at each other waiting for someone to step up and continue development on the

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 16, 2003, at 4:12 AM, Glenn wrote: - lack of clear leadership and even basic direction scratch-an-itch development is fine and good, but not in total chaos Umm... this *is* the ASF. It's *developer* driven. The direction is defined by the developers. - cathedral development it appears

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 16, 2003, at 2:23 PM, Glenn wrote: I don't expect any of the current Apache developers would be interested in this. But plenty of people join the development community over time (see previous comments) and theoretically the opinions could change. Well, I am interested. And some others

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jim Jagielski wrote: I'm curious how a 1.4 or whatever would make it easier for people to make that transition. What would 1.4 have or be for that to happen? I was kind of wondering this one too ... I thought the biggest headache of moving from 1 - 2 was that the APIs

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:37:19PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: As noted many times, 1.3 is actively maintained but not actively developed. To be honest, I've not seen that many people saying I *really* want to add this to 1.3!. If they had, chances are good that I'd +1 (not that what goes

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:46:26PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: Why 1.4? What will 1.4 have that 1.3 does not? Or do you mean reopening 1.3 implies that it becomes 1.4? Only semantics. .4 is even, so stable; .5 is development and less stable +1 for officially allowing active development on

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Nov 16, 2003, at 3:57 PM, Glenn wrote: Oh, how about my (effectively) 2-line patch which adds vhost to the error log, which I have posted to this list NO LESS THAN 6 TIMES and spaced out over the past 6 MONTHS in three different formats, using a global, expanding server_rec, and with #defines.

RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Paul Querna
just to pop my 2 cents worth in here ... I have some clients that have deployed under Apache2 ... the major headache(s) that I've had to date is that the FreeBSD thread support is still listed as unusable: * If you are building on FreeBSD, be aware that threads will

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Jim Jagielski
Glenn wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:46:26PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: Why 1.4? What will 1.4 have that 1.3 does not? Or do you mean reopening 1.3 implies that it becomes 1.4? Only semantics. .4 is even, so stable; .5 is development and less stable Personally, I've never liked

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:12:20PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Nov 16, 2003, at 3:57 PM, Glenn wrote: Oh, how about my (effectively) 2-line patch which adds vhost to the error log, which I have posted to this list NO LESS THAN 6 TIMES and spaced out over the past 6 MONTHS in three

RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Paul Querna wrote: just to pop my 2 cents worth in here ... I have some clients that have deployed under Apache2 ... the major headache(s) that I've had to date is that the FreeBSD thread support is still listed as unusable: * If you are building on

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Greg Marr
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 16:21:04 -0500 Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 04:12:20PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: I may be misunderstanding you... or do you mean just have Apache 1.3 APR aware and not for 1.3 to *use* it per se, but allow for modules to call APR... That would be

Re: 1.3 Wishlist: (Was: Re: consider reopening 1.3)

2003-11-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Jim Jagielski wrote: So a useful topic is: What is *missing* in 1.3 that needs to be addressed. What are the features/additions that the disenfranchised 1.3 developers want to add to 1.3... How about support for chunked compressed responses right in src/main/buff.c

RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Marc Slemko
What exactly do people want in a 1.4 and why is making that fit into 2.0 not an option? So far I can recall seeing a few reasons why people aren't moving to 2.0. 1. they have no need to change, so they don't. Why would having a 1.4 then 2.0 will make them have a need to make two changes? If

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Ben Collins-Sussman
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 11:11, Jeff Trawick wrote: - patch management many patches posted to this list or the bug db languish in limbo. Very little happens until a core contributor decides to take over a patch (more often than not it is more than simply shepherding it) Little

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hamilton
, November 16, 2003 12:02 PM Subject: Re: consider reopening 1.3 Hi, I understand many people still are with 1.3 and don't want to change because it's stable. But Coding modules with 1.3 is definitively not easy and require many time core patch. Apache 2.0 was design to give many really good

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread david
Ok, so Apache2 uptake is slower than desired for some (not all) on this list. That's only logical given the success and therefore inertia to stay with Apache 1.3. But there are more than a few other factors mentioned in recent threads that are contributing to Apache2 development stagnation.

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, November 16, 2003 4:04 PM -0500 Glenn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:46:26PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: Why 1.4? What will 1.4 have that 1.3 does not? Or do you mean reopening 1.3 implies that it becomes 1.4? Only semantics. .4 is even, so stable; .5 is

FreeBSD threads was RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Justin Erenkrantz
--On Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:20 PM -0400 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On FreeBSD 4.X it is broken(and will be forever?). On FreeBSD 5.X, use KSE threading (which may become the default in the future 5.2 release anyways?) and it works great. man libmap.conf on a FreeBSD box for

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Ian Holsman
Glenn wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:37:19PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: Oh, how about my (effectively) 2-line patch which adds vhost to the error log, which I have posted to this list NO LESS THAN 6 TIMES and spaced out over the past 6 MONTHS in three different formats, using a global,

Re: 1.3 Wishlist: (Was: Re: consider reopening 1.3)

2003-11-16 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 03:54:59PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: I'm also curious about what a 1.4/1.5 would do that the current 1.3 does not which would provide a seamless upgrade. Are you talking API or what? As someone who's preformed numerous such migrations, the actual mechanics of doing so

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Glenn
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:35:20AM +1100, Ian Holsman wrote: Glenn wrote: I have some different ideas. One is to distribute APR with 1.3 so that modules developers could incrementally move their modules to APR. why can't you just link APR into your 1.3 module? I don't think there would be

RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Marc Slemko wrote: 3. Threading issues. This is a red herring; threading issues can be a reason why moving to 2.0 wouldn't give someone enough of a reason to make it worthwhile, but they do not block anyone moving to 2.0. if they don't want to use threads, they don't

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Ian Holsman
Glenn wrote: On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:35:20AM +1100, Ian Holsman wrote: Glenn wrote: I have some different ideas. One is to distribute APR with 1.3 so that modules developers could incrementally move their modules to APR. why can't you just link APR into your 1.3 module? I don't think there

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Ian Holsman
Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: I have always had the feeling that Apache2+prefork was a bit of a second-class citizen. I have tested it periodically over the past 2 years and it has never gotten anywhere close to Apache1 in performance. I ran another test of 1.3.29 vs 2.0.48-prefork just now just to

RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Peter J. Cranstone
be seriously thinking about 64-bit and getting Apache around the 4GB memory limitation. Regards, Peter -Original Message- From: Jim Jagielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: consider reopening 1.3 On Nov 16, 2003, at 4:12

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Jim Jagielski
Peter J. Cranstone wrote: What would 1.4 have or be for that to happen? You have 12 million users - shouldn't be hard to simply ask them what they would like to see. Postal fees will be hell... -- === Jim

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Kyle Hamilton
, November 16, 2003 4:15 PM Subject: Re: consider reopening 1.3 Peter J. Cranstone wrote: What would 1.4 have or be for that to happen? You have 12 million users - shouldn't be hard to simply ask them what they would like to see. Postal fees will be hell

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Ian Holsman wrote: I belive 2.0 beats 1.3 on these metrics, but like everyone here, Ihave no more energy proving/disproving which is faster.. 2.0 works for me, and thats all I really care about, not who else is using it. Do you really believe this to be true for

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Bill Stoddard
Peter J. Cranstone wrote: In today's environment it's all about 2 words - price/performance. Show me that Apache 2.x can outperform 1.x by a factor 10 on the same box. Dig around... I posted a benchmark to this list early in 2.0 development showing a 10x improvement of threaded 2.0 over 1.3 on

Re: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Martin Kraemer
Marc Slemko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Threading issues. This is a red herring; threading issues can be a reason why moving to 2.0 wouldn't give someone enough of a reason to make it worthwhile, but they do not block anyone moving to 2.0. if they don't want to use threads, they don't have to

Re: FreeBSD threads was RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 02:34:47PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:20 PM -0400 Marc G. Fournier 'k, maybe expand the comment in the INSTALL file to address this? Well, we've asked for confirmation of FreeBSD threading 'working' on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: FreeBSD threads was RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Yup, this is what I tend to see ... One question, what does 'ps auxwl' show, primarily the WCHAN column? On Sun, 16 Nov 2003, Aaron Bannert wrote: On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 02:34:47PM -0800, Justin Erenkrantz wrote: --On Sunday, November 16, 2003 5:20 PM -0400 Marc G. Fournier 'k, maybe

Re: FreeBSD threads was RE: consider reopening 1.3

2003-11-16 Thread Aaron Bannert
On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 09:43:03PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Yup, this is what I tend to see ... One question, what does 'ps auxwl' show, primarily the WCHAN column? I don't have access to the machine right now, but I can check later. -aaron