AIO support on Linux

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Aleksandar Lazic wrote:

> On Don 19.10.2006 15:42, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>> 
>> Sorry, it's difficult to me to write in English, so I will be short:
>> I do not think that AIO support in nginx will add huge perfomance boost
>> because:
>> 
>> 1) You can run 100 worker processes to issue 100 simultaneous disk
>>    IO operations. You can not do it with lighttpd and other single process
>>    servers.
>
> I'am not a fan of lighty but to be fair, since 1.4.x lighty have
> something similar like 'worker_processes' as far as I know:
>
> http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/server.max-workerDetails
> http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AMultiProcessor
>
> I don't know how scalable or robust it is.

Thank you, I missed this.


Igor Sysoev
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