Re: Apache + mod_php performance

On 9/30/2024 8:41 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:33:59 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

But efficiency is a problem. VMS does not do fork. Process creation
is expensive on VMS. None of that fancy moving descriptors over
Unix socket stuff.
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VMS got plenty of methods for IPC. A solution with a fixed number
of processes doing IPC between each other may work fine.
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But the concept of constantly starting new processes and killing
old processes is not going to perform great.

 In other words, VMS still lives in a past world where its kind of
programming model worked fine, and has never adapted to the era of massive
parallelism and serving thousands of concurrent client connections.

More like VMS living in the future world.
:-)
The world is moving from forking processes to starting threads.
As soon as Python are done getting rid of GIL then it will
join the thread party!
:-)
Arne