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Apache Week | 5 Apr 2002 18:21
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Apache Week issue 290


                                APACHE WEEK

The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
                         Issue 290: 5th April 2002

                                 In this issue

     * Under development
     * Featured articles
     * Book Review: mod_perl Developer's Cookbook
     * Apache Week giveaway

                               Under development

     The long-awaited "bucket freelist" patch was committed this week by
     Cliff Woolley. Before this change, the bucket brigade code
     (underlying the filters interface in 2.0) directly used malloc and
     free for allocating buckets (on which filters operate: a bucket
     represents a piece of data being processed). The new behaviour has
     been optimised to re-use memory without calling free, giving a
     significant performance improvement. Some benchmarks were posted
     comparing some mod_include test pages; one page being processed
     over over three times faster using the current 2.0 code than in
     1.3.24.

     The next release of Apache 2.0, due to be 2.0.34 (which was
     [1]tagged last week), remains on hold as problems were discovered
     in mod_autoindex, due to some complex interactions in the handling
     of filters during sub-request processing.
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Apache Week | 12 Apr 2002 18:02
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Apache Week issue 291


                                APACHE WEEK

The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
                         Issue 291: 12th April 2002

                                 In this issue

     * Apache 2.0 released
     * Under development
     * Featured articles
     * O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2002
     * Apache Week giveaway

                              Apache 2.0 released

     The first release of Apache 2.0 happened last week. Read our
     [1]special feature all about the history of development on Apache
     2.0, the release schedules, and some features to help you use this
     new release

     There have been a number of press articles in the last week about
     this release. Firstly [2]CNN.com take a look at the new version and
     quote Dan Kusnetzky of research company IDC:

     "From what I'm hearing, the performance improvements are
     significant". 

     Although they later seem to get confused about multitasking:
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Apache Week | 19 Apr 2002 18:01
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Apache Week issue 292


                                APACHE WEEK

The essential weekly guide for users of the world's most popular Web server.
                         Issue 292: 19th April 2002

                                 In this issue

     * Under development
     * In the news
     * Featured articles
     * Apache Week giveaway

                               Under development

     There was further discussion of the MPMs in 2.0 this week, as the
     perchild MPM was moved into the "experimental" directory to reflect
     the expected stability from the module. A second new experimental
     thread-based MPM, threadpool was added by Brian Pane, with a design
     similar to the leader/follower MPM which was committed last week.
     Brian also benchmarked four of the MPMs available for Unix systems:
     finding that leader/follower gave the best performance for a server
     listening on a single port, and worker the best performance for a
     server listening on two ports.

Recent changes since 2.0.35

     The following changes have been committed to the Apache 2.0 CVS
     tree since the 2.0.35 release:
     * hooks added to mod_dav allowing a repository provider module to
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