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Subject: Re: Pre-forking Proxies?
From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny @ miricle . its . unimelb . edu . au>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 10:26:13 +1100 (EST)
To: Ken Hardy <ken @ bridge . com>
Cc: gavin @ theboard . reednews . co . uk, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199512082015 . AA19056 @ ignatz . bridge . com>


On Fri, 8 Dec 1995, Ken Hardy wrote:

> Gavin Aiken <gavin @
 theboard .
 reednews .
 co .
 uk> wrote:
> 
> >Does anyone know of any other proxy code that can run in a pre-forking
> >configuration, similar to NCSA's httpd? Or does anyone have a view

There are patches to make CERN prefork.  I can dig out a reference if 
required, but I recommend harvest cached from http://excalibur.usc.edu/

Harvest cached does not fork at all, but maintains its own internal 
multi-threading type code.  Load average on our machine went from 5-6 
with CERN, to 3 with prefork CERN to 2.5 with Netscape Proxy to 0.6 with 
harvest cached.  Harvest cached can handle 21,000+ connections per hour on 
a DEC AXP 3000/300 with 96 MB RAM.

Danny


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