"Pierre C" <lists(at)peufeu(dot)com> writes:
> The same is true of a web server : 1000 active php interpreters (each eating
> several megabytes or more) are not ideal for performance !
>
> For php, I like lighttpd with php-fastcgi : the webserver proxies requests
> to a small pool of php processes, which are only busy while generating the
> page. Once the page is generated the webserver handles all (slow) IO to the
> client.
I use haproxy for that, it handles requests queues very effectively.
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