Re: [us...@httpd] HTTP server scalability

2009-06-12 Thread Vinay Nagrik
wrote: It was thus said that the Great Vinay Nagrik once stated: Thank you Andrew and Tom, Thank you for your insightful replies. These have definitely helped me in understanding the major issues. At this moment I can not understand How a 'Connecton' is passed from parent process

Re: [us...@httpd] HTTP server scalability

2009-06-11 Thread Vinay Nagrik
Thank you Andrew and Tom, Thank you for your insightful replies. These have definitely helped me in understanding the major issues. At this moment I can not understand How a 'Connecton' is passed from parent process to child process. My understanding is a connection is a combination of (IP

[us...@httpd] HTTP server scalability

2009-06-10 Thread Vinay Nagrik
Dear Group, How do web servers achieve scalability is bothering me for a long time. My understanding is that an application can open one and only one socket connection through four system calls (socket, bind, listen, and accept). It is at 'listen' level that a server can specify for how many