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Abbreviated "MPM."

Official Documentation

Responsibilities:

binding network ports
accepting requests
dispatching children to handle requests

One and only one must be loaded into the server at any given time. The MPM is compiled into the server.

To find out what MPM module is loaded, execute: httpd -l

Some MPMs:

prefork - default for Unix - non-threaded, uses spare servers
worker - threaded and pre-forked
perchild - threaded and pre-forked, balances threading among children
mpm_winnt, mpmt_os2, mpm_netware, beos - other systems

MultiProcessingModules (last edited 2009-09-20 23:31:23 by localhost)