Comments on: What can a threaded web server do for a memory hungry application ? http://www.webalis.com/2008/04/what-can-do-a-threaded-server-for-a-memory-hungry-application/ Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:01:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Thierry http://www.webalis.com/2008/04/what-can-do-a-threaded-server-for-a-memory-hungry-application/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Thierry Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:37:14 +0000 http://www.webalis.com/?p=15#comment-39 Undoubtly it is. I'm running Gentoo for mainly 1 reason: portage. I've tried ubuntu, fedora, mandrake, suse, slackware, debian and many others over the years, but none approach the flexibility and the ease of use of portage. Especially when you have to define overlays to override the default packages. That, and the service use many low level libraries that (for some) require unstable versions. The last time I've tried to install this service on a centOs, I gave up after being forced to recompile 2/3 of the system libraries as crossed dependencies. On Gento, it was just 1 emerge command, and everything followed nicely. I appreciate this. In the end, Apache is just one brick. I don't know how a thread unsafe postgresql would react, but I suspect it could be really bad. So I appreciate Gentoo's portage warning me that the DB server must be recompiled with other options to support that. Undoubtly it is.
I’m running Gentoo for mainly 1 reason: portage.

I’ve tried ubuntu, fedora, mandrake, suse, slackware, debian and many others over the years, but none approach the flexibility and the ease of use of portage.
Especially when you have to define overlays to override the default packages.
That, and the service use many low level libraries that (for some) require unstable versions.
The last time I’ve tried to install this service on a centOs, I gave up after being forced to recompile 2/3 of the system libraries as crossed dependencies.

On Gento, it was just 1 emerge command, and everything followed nicely.
I appreciate this.

In the end, Apache is just one brick. I don’t know how a thread unsafe postgresql would react, but I suspect it could be really bad.
So I appreciate Gentoo’s portage warning me that the DB server must be recompiled with other options to support that.

]]> By: oker1 http://www.webalis.com/2008/04/what-can-do-a-threaded-server-for-a-memory-hungry-application/comment-page-1/#comment-38 oker1 Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:11:32 +0000 http://www.webalis.com/?p=15#comment-38 on different distros you dont have to compile just aptitude/yum/whatever install apache2-mpm-worker package :) on different distros you dont have to compile just aptitude/yum/whatever install apache2-mpm-worker package :)

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