AIO support on Linux

[Aleksandar Lazic]

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.


Regards

Aleks