On Nov 26, 2007 4:02 AM, Christian Folini <christian.folini@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 09:58:22AM +0100, Gottschalch Christian wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > short question, in apache mpm prefork, who is handling the connection ? > > if i understand it right, then the apache root process dispatches a > > connection to an worker process, this process is processing the request > > for the client, after request processing, dose the apache worker process > > waits for further requests till Timeout is reached or the connection was > > closed by the client ? After connection close the worker process is free > > to handle further connections & requests ? > > You understand it correctly. Your assumptions are all correct. Except that the KeepAliveTimeout directive indicates the amount of time apache will wait, not the regular TimeOut directive. For a different way to handle this, see the event mpm. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx