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By: mike

mike — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:12:10 +0000

That applies to the default configurations. Almost every web host I've used has Apache in the prefork mode, and in most cases they don't let you change it.

By: pcdinh

pcdinh — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:37:41 +0000

> Apache uses a separate process for each connection, so if you have a
> very busy site with lots of simultaneous connections it can use a huge amount of memory.

I am sorry but your are wrong. Apache supports 3 different approach in handling requests: prefork mode (as you said), multiple threads and event-driven (like nginx)

> Nginx, on the other hand, uses one worker process with a fixed number of CGI processes
> no matter how many connections it’s serving.

Nope, you can configure nginx to have more than one worker process