Re: mod_perl survey results

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:46 AM, André Warnier <aw@ice-sa.com> wrote:[color=blue][color=green][color=darkred]
>>> - A surprising number of people are running mod_perl under the worker
>>> MPM.[/color][/color]
>
> What is so surprising about this ? (genuine curious question)[/color]

Because of the way perl threads use memory, you end up using less a
lot less memory with prefork than with threads on Linux/BSD. This has
been discussed on the mailing list many times. The only platform
where I expect to see people use threads is Windows, since they have
no choice there.

- Perrin