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<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache MPM event</h1>
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>A variant of the <code class="module"><a href="/mod/worker.html">worker</a></code> MPM with the goal
of consuming threads only for connections with active processing</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module�Identifier:</a></th><td>mpm_event_module</td></tr>
<h3>Summary</h3>
<p>The <code class="module"><a href="/mod/event.html">event</a></code> Multi-Processing Module (MPM) is
designed to allow more requests to be served simultaneously by
passing off some processing work to supporting threads, freeing up
the main threads to work on new requests. It is based on the
multi-process multi-threaded server. Run-time configuration
directives are identical to those provided by
<code>--with-mpm=event</code> to the <code class="program"><a href="/programs/configure.html">configure</a></code>
script's arguments when building the <code class="program"><a href="/programs/httpd.html">httpd</a></code>.</p>
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<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#acceptmutex">AcceptMutex</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#coredumpdirectory">CoreDumpDirectory</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#enableexceptionhook">EnableExceptionHook</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#listenbacklog">ListenBacklog</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#maxrequestsperchild">MaxRequestsPerChild</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#maxsparethreads">MaxSpareThreads</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#minsparethreads">MinSpareThreads</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#scoreboardfile">ScoreBoardFile</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#sendbuffersize">SendBufferSize</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#serverlimit">ServerLimit</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#startservers">StartServers</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#threadlimit">ThreadLimit</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#threadsperchild">ThreadsPerChild</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="/images/right.gif" /> <a href="mpm_common.html#threadstacksize">ThreadStackSize</a></li>
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<h3>Topics</h3>
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<h2><a name="how-it-works" id="how-it-works">How it Works</a></h2>
<p>This MPM tries to fix the 'keep alive problem' in HTTP. After a client
completes the first request, the client can keep the connection
open, and send further requests using the same socket. This can
save signifigant overhead in creating TCP connections. However,
for data from the client, which brings its own disadvantages. To
solve this problem, this MPM uses a dedicated thread to handle both
the Listening sockets, and all sockets that are in a Keep Alive
state.</p>
<p>The MPM assumes that the underlying <code>apr_pollset</code>
implementation is reasonably threadsafe. This enables the MPM to
avoid excessive high level locking, or having to wake up the listener
thread in order to send it a keep-alive socket. This is currently
only compatible with KQueue and EPoll.</p>
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<h2><a name="requirements" id="requirements">Requirements</a></h2>
<p>This MPM depends on <a class="glossarylink" href="/glossary.html#apr" title="see glossary">APR</a>'s atomic
compare-and-swap operations for thread synchronization. If you are
compiling for an x86 target and you don't need to support 386s, or
you are compiling for a SPARC and you don't need to run on
pre-UltraSPARC chips, add
<code>--enable-nonportable-atomics=yes</code> to the
<code class="program"><a href="/programs/configure.html">configure</a></code> script's arguments. This will cause
APR to implement atomic operations using efficient opcodes not
available in older CPUs.</p>
<p>This MPM does not perform well on older platforms which lack good
threading, but the requirement for EPoll or KQueue makes this
moot.</p>
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<li>To use this MPM on FreeBSD, FreeBSD 5.3 or higher is recommended.
However, it is possible to run this MPM on FreeBSD 5.2.1, if you
<li>For NetBSD, at least version 2.0 is recommended.</li>
<li>For Linux, a 2.6 kernel is recommended. It is also necessary to
ensure that your version of <code>glibc</code> has been compiled
with support for EPoll.</li>
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