Re: Queueing of HTTP Requests

Bill Stoddard wrote:

> Pavan Balaji wrote:
> 
>> Thanks. I was trying to segregate the requests into two priority levels
>> (don't ask me how :-)) and have a different queue for each of them. Now
>> that there's no queue, I'll have to come up with some other scheme to do
>> this. Any suggestions are welcome.
>>
> 
> Apache 2.0 provides some interesting possibilities. You can either 
> modify an existing MPM (http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mpm.html) or 
> create your own.
> 
> Bill

Tho it is not obvious in the link referenced above, the worker MPM introduces a queue between the thread that 
accepts connections and a pool of worker threads that do the work serving the request. The per-child MPM has a 
queue between an 'acceptor' process and multiple 'worker' processes that each have the ability to run under a 
unique user id. It would probably not be too difficult to experiment with priority queuing using the worker MPM.

Bill