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

2009-06-12 Thread Jonathan Zuckerman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Sean Conners...@conman.org 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

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

2009-06-12 Thread Eric Covener
 The parent process then takes the connection socket, and passes it on to an available child process to handle---once the socket is passed on to the child (and no, the three-way TCP handshake does not have to happen again, the connected socket is passed from the parent to the child process),

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

2009-06-12 Thread Vinay Nagrik
Great, Great, Great! Sean Conner and Andrew Warnier. This topic is covered in full without anybody being sarcastic, as is often the case in other usenet groups. My heartful thanks to participating parties. Thanks a lot. Nagrik On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Sean Conner s...@conman.org

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

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

2009-06-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 09:10 -0700, Vinay Nagrik wrote: 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

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

2009-06-10 Thread André Warnier
Complementary to what you will find in the on-line Apache documentation at http://httpd.apache.org, and painted with a very wide brush : When you start Apache, a single main Apache process is started. It reads and checks the configuration, and loads a series of core and add-on modules, as per