nginx support multithread
Brian Akins
brian at akins.org
Thu Oct 27 11:06:29 UTC 2011
On Oct 27, 2011, at 3:41 AM, agentzh wrote:
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>> What would be the usage of multi-threads?
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>
> Mostly for (blocking) disk I/O and other syscalls that have to block
> the main thread of an nginx worker :)
>
True. I've seen some systems where the overhead of the thread/queue management was more than just letting the system call block the main thread. We generally run 2 nginx procs per CPU core.
I just worry about bloat. There is a reason nginx's market share is rising and Apache's is falling.
--Brian
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