Re: How to get Apache to use simultaneous connections to my fcgi app?

David Birnbaum <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.fastcgi.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 20 Aug 2007, joe-QzMH92Wc/[email protected] wrote:

>> You may find `grep -w FCGI_GET_VALUES mod_fastcgi-2.4.2/*.c`
>> illuminating.
>>
>> In short, the only way to handle multiple requests simultaneously
>> with mod_fastcgi is to have it start multiple instances of your
>> application.
>
> Doh!  And in external mode, it doesn't start any instances of your
> application.  I'm using external mode because it's the only way I can
> find to make mod_fastcgi to use TCP sockets, rather than Unix sockets
> (which I don't have easy access to in my environment).
>
> So, is it the case that mod_fastcgi can only make multiple requests
> simultaneously for local apps communicating over Unix sockets?

No - the regular apache proc manager (and the applications we use) do it just 
fine over TCP applications.  As far as I can tell, all the applications on a 
single machine just use a mutex and do accept() calls one after another.

How are you setting up your application to handle multiple connections at once?

David.
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