From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Eric <eric@cisu.net>
Cc: stl@nuwen.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Process Creation Speed
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:30:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040419003026.GC11064@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404180044.02850.eric@cisu.net>
Eric wrote:
> > It matters to me because the Common Gateway Interface spawns and destroys a
> > process to handle each request, and I wish it were just fast, rather than
> > having to use FastCGI.
>
> The difference in speed between regular and FastCGI shouldnt
> be related to process creation time. The speed up you see from
> FastCGI is because it doesn't have to be read from disk each
> time. So, you're really looking for performace enhancements in the
> wrong place. Tweaking process creation can't make your platters spin
> faster.
Wrong explanation. CGI does not "read from disk each time". Files,
including executables, are cached in RAM. Platter speed is irrelevant
unless your server is overloaded, which this one plainly isn't.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-19 0:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-17 2:16 Process Creation Speed Stephan T. Lavavej
2004-04-18 5:44 ` Eric
2004-04-19 0:30 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2004-04-19 2:15 ` Eric
2004-04-19 3:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-19 5:43 ` Eric
2004-04-19 9:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2004-04-19 12:09 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2004-04-19 12:44 ` Stephan T. Lavavej
2004-04-19 22:48 ` David Lang
2004-04-22 13:40 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2004-04-19 13:28 ` Jamie Lokier
[not found] <1MFUQ-1zo-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <1MGnU-1U9-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-04-19 15:43 ` Andi Kleen
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