Re: Threads (was: Notebooks)

Dax Kelson (dkelson@inconnect.com)
Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:52:09 -0600 (MDT)


On 16 Aug 1998, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Does squid use threads? That's one of the things I've found so far and
> is fixed in pre-116-2 (which is very rough btw, but it was meant to be a
> debug release rather than anything else)
>
> Linus

No, Squid uses a big select loop. Sometime in the distant future it might
use threads.

The "Zeus" webserver can use many threads (www.zeus.co.uk), I've seen over
500 threads on a box with lots of web servers.

Dax Kelson
Internet Connect, Inc.

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