Bug#234543: apache2-mpm-prefork: incomplete description
Package: apache2-mpm-prefork
Severity: minor
The current description of the apache2-mpm-prefork Debian package is
incomplete, and insufficient to allow a user to evaluate its utility
without consulting Apache's documentation themselves. Here is a good
paragraphs I found in Apache's documentation that might make sense in
the Debian package description:
"This Multi-Processing Module (MPM) implements a non-threaded,
pre-forking web server that handles requests in a manner similar to
Apache 1.3. It is appropriate for sites that need to avoid threading for
compatibility with non-thread-safe libraries. It is also the best MPM
for isolating each request, so that a problem with a single request will
not affect any other." [1]
I think that the description should also recommend the worker mpm for
higher performance, as Apache does in [2]their documentation.
The user should be able to look at the description and from that alone
determine whether or not they need prefork or worker for their site.
Charles
1. http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/prefork.html
2. http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/misc/perf-tuning.html#compiletime
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel: Linux frogcircus.org 2.4.25-5um #5 Thu Feb 19 14:29:11 EST 2004 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
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