On Oct 27, 2011, at 3:41 AM, agentzh wrote:
>>
>> What would be the usage of multi-threads?
>>
>
> Mostly for (blocking) disk I/O and other syscalls that have to block
> the main thread of an nginx worker :)
>

True. I've seen some systems where the overhead of the thread/queue management was more than just letting the system call block the main thread. We generally run 2 nginx procs per CPU core.

I just worry about bloat. There is a reason nginx's market share is rising and Apache's is falling.

--Brian



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