Comments on: Bending HTTP until it breaks http://ajaxian.com/archives/bending-http-until-it-breaks Cleaning up the web with Ajax Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:55:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Steven Roussey http://ajaxian.com/archives/bending-http-until-it-breaks/comment-page-1#comment-3451 Steven Roussey Wed, 15 Feb 2006 02:38:30 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/bending-http-until-it-breaks#comment-3451 This is the reason why Apache 2.2 has such value with its Event MPM -- it keeps a sinlge thread per process to manage Keep-Alives, rather than one thread per Keep-Alive or one process per Keep-Alive. I'm hoping it moves out of experimental soon. This is the reason why Apache 2.2 has such value with its Event MPM — it keeps a sinlge thread per process to manage Keep-Alives, rather than one thread per Keep-Alive or one process per Keep-Alive. I’m hoping it moves out of experimental soon.

]]> By: Dan Kubb http://ajaxian.com/archives/bending-http-until-it-breaks/comment-page-1#comment-3443 Dan Kubb Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:01:21 +0000 http://ajaxian.com/archives/bending-http-until-it-breaks#comment-3443 I think we're scratching the surface of what web servers will be able to handle in the future. In the last year or so we've seen an increasing number of people beginning to use alternate web server software like <a href="http://www.lighttpd.net/" rel="nofollow">LightTPD</a> which has a more efficient way of handling connections than traditional Apache systems. Even Apache is beginning to take notice and created its own <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/event.html" rel="nofollow">Event MPM</a> which handles Keep-Alive connections more efficiently than the normal connection per thread/process approach. With these new approaches hopefully we'll begin see software that can more easily handle 1,000 or even <a href="http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html" rel="nofollow">10,000</a> connections at once. I think we’re scratching the surface of what web servers will be able to handle in the future. In the last year or so we’ve seen an increasing number of people beginning to use alternate web server software like LightTPD which has a more efficient way of handling connections than traditional Apache systems.

Even Apache is beginning to take notice and created its own Event MPM which handles Keep-Alive connections more efficiently than the normal connection per thread/process approach.

With these new approaches hopefully we’ll begin see software that can more easily handle 1,000 or even 10,000 connections at once.

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