by Hi,
I'm fairly new to Apache development and need helps from experienced
Apache
experts.
With Apache 1.x, it's a parent/child single threaded architecture.
(i.e. the parent httpd forks of x numbers of children, and each child
is a single threaded process responding to requests.). My problem
is that a new module that I need to write contains multiple threads.
The threads are there to periodically collect session and traffic
statistics. Some of the statistics are collected regardless
of whether a request comes in or not. Therefore, I cannot rely on
the request event handler to intervene and get the needed information.
My question is: "Does Apache allow a module to contain multiple threads?
It it does, my life is much simpler. Otherwise, I have to
think of a mechanism that use a separate process to collect statistics
from each child even at the time when there is no request comes in.
Please advice and shred some lights. Any helps will be
greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Susan