[ic] When does IC decide to spawn a new server instance?

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 13:49:00 2002


At 01:31 PM 01/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Quoting Ed LaFrance (edl@newmediaems.com):
> > Hi -
> >
> > The subject says it all - can anyone quantify the conditions which would
> > lead to a new IC process being spawned. In other words, how is it
> > determined that an additional process is needed?
> >
>
>Gee, Ed, I don't know what you mean, other than the standard
>stuff. Might be nice to have some context...
>
>If running in the foreground, nothing is spawned at all.
>
>In Fork mode, (i.e. 'low' or 'high' for traffic in the standard setup),
>new processes are spawned for every page.
>
>In Prefork mode ('rpc' in standard setup) one master process exists. In
>addition, an instance is forked to equal StartServers. After
>MaxRequestsPerChild requests have been handled by the instance, it dies
>and another is forked.
>
>SOAP is always pre-forked, so if you have that enabled then another
>N servers will be there.

That was a surprisingly helpful answer, considering that you had no idea 
what I meant ;-)  Those general rules are what I was looking for.  Thanks!

- Ed L.


===============================================================
New Media E.M.S.               Software Solutions for Business
463 Main St., Suite D          eCommerce | Consulting | Hosting
Placerville, CA  95667         edl@newmediaems.com
(530) 622-9421                 http://www.newmediaems.com
(866) 519-4680 Toll-Free       (530) 622-9426 Fax
===============================================================