single threaded web servers

[Amos Shapira]

Yes I know it's possible to fork multiple processes with one thread in each
and all that jazz.

I'm asking in the context of Erez' response - if he runs single-threaded
code on a multiprocessor hardware, how would he take advantage of more than
one processor core?


On 3 July 2016 at 08:35, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jul 2016 07:13:13 +1000
> Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the explanation. I like this.
> > How would a single-threaded process take advantage of muti- CPU?
>
> Threads is just one method of multiprocessing. IIRC, back in the day
> Apache multiprocessed by forking a new process for every HTTP
> connection. Certainly those processes would be apportioned among the
> many processors or cores.
>
> SteveT
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