Re: [squid-users] why does squid use select() ?

> Squid runs as a single process and uses select() for I/O on
> different sockets. Why doesn't it fork() a different process to achieve
> concurrency? Is that to avoid the overheads of creating a new process? What
> are the advantages and disadvantages?

how fast does your unix work with 20000 processes (assuming it CAN have so
much)?

please try :)
Received on Thu May 24 2001 - 07:43:11 MDT