[ic] Pre-forked server mode

Mike Heins interchange-users@lists.akopia.com
Tue Aug 7 09:14:54 2001


Quoting Stefan Hornburg (Racke) (racke@linuxia.de):
> "Kevin Walsh" <kevin@cursor.uk.com> writes:
> 
> > Just a quick question.
> > 
> > Is the pre-forked server mode still considered to be an alpha
> > feature, or is it considered 'stable' now?
> > 
> > When it was first announced, it was stressed that it was an
> > early alpha.  Then again, 4.7 was an early alpha at the time
> > too :-)
> > 
> > I've not heard anything since, apart from advice on this list
> > for some people to use it.
> 
> I think it works fairly good, but unfortunately I cannot talk about
> really stressed installations.

It works well. We are using it on our busiest sites, one of which receives
peak rates of 600 page views per minute.

It is no longer alpha.

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