[getsat]

Haha. I think Apache is the only popular webserver nowadays that actually still can't beat the C10k problem [1] without an extravagant amount of system resources. Process- and thread-based concurrency sucks for HTTP(S).

Event-driven is the way to go.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10k_problem

[sciurus]

When Apache 2.4 is released, hopefully the event MPM will help with this.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/mod/event.html

[getsat]

Yeah, the evented MPM has always been the redheaded stepchild of the Apache family, which is unfortunate.