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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by dean gaudet <dg...@arctic.org> on 2001/04/08 18:17:00 UTC

Re: OPTIMIZE_TIMEOUTS and apache 2.0

OPTIMIZE_TIMEOUTS avoids extra alarm() system calls to manage network
timeouts... and alarm() shouldn't be used in 2.0 anyhow since all network
timeouts should be implemented through poll().  so OPTIMIZE_TIMEOUTS
should not be necessary in 2.0.

-dean

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Jeff Trawick wrote:

> Does anybody understand 1.3 OPTIMIZE_TIMEOUTS enough to state with
> confidence whether or not it makes sense with 2.0?
>
> I think that at best it could make sense only with prefork (sending
> SIGALRM to wake up child threads is definitely not possible).
>
> I don't understand the 1.3 code enough to tell what is being
> optimized.
>
> Thanks...
>
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