Re: apc improvements

Thomas Seifert wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 00:26:38 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > >>garana@uolsinectis.com.ar wrote: >> >> >>>indeed. My problem is not forking. The number of running processes, >>>and context-switches, and kernel-mode-cpu-usage grows when I enable APC. >>>I can't reproduce the problem right now (I'm off the office). Let me >>>try this in a testbench and provide readprofile's output, to see where >>>are all those kernel-mode cpu is going. >> >>If your MaxClients were fixed and you prefork that many processes and >>never kill any, nor fork new ones, then the number of processes can't >>increase, period. You obviously don't have your server configured like >>that. > > > Uhm, not sure if I'm on the wrong track but he is talking about > *running* processes. The same number of processes could have been spawned > but many are probably sleeping with the smaller number of *running* > processes. That may be true. Still doesn't match what I see on my systems. I'd be curious to see how the picture changes running it non-SMP. -Rasmus