processmodel

What's the difference between a worker thread and an I/O thread?

Looking at the processmodel element in the Web.Config there are two attributes. maxWorkerThreads="25" maxIoThreads="25" What is the difference between worker threads and I/O threads? ...

ASP.NET Processmodel Configuration Optimization

A regular ASP.NET installation will create machine.config with the following configuration: <system.web> <processModel autoConfig="true" /> I would like to override few properties values in web.config like: <system.web> <processModel maxWorkerThreads="100" maxIoThreads="100" minWorkerThreads="40" minIoT...

What is Apache process model?

I have been googling this question for some time but got no answers. What's the Apache process model? By process model, I mean how Apache manage process or thread to handling HTTP request. Does it fork one process for each HTTP request? Does it have process/thread pool? Can we config it? Is there any online doc for such Apache deta...