Subject: Re: Apache as a daemon (bit offtopic)
To: David A. Gatwood <marsmail@globegate.utm.edu>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/17/1998 11:40:10
At 8:36 AM -0700 8/17/98, David A. Gatwood wrote:
>BTW, why are you running it under inetd?  httpd was designed primarily to
>run as a background daemon, and it's much more efficient that way (less
>disk/processor intensive, etc., since it doesn't have to spawn a new httpd
>process every time you get a web hit).  Just wondering.

That's true, but it soaks up a fair amount of swap space.  inetd lets it
use zero resources while not in use, but a connection startup has more
overhead.

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