[Info-vax] Apache + mod_php performance

[Arne Vajhøj]

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.
>>
>> VMS got plenty of methods for IPC. A solution with a fixed number
>> of processes doing IPC between each other may work fine.
>>
>> 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