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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>  ...In fact, if machine overhead is the biggest issue then the most extreme
>     answer is to not use threading at all... instead, go with a strict
>     kqueue poll for the core web server and fork one process for each cpu on
>     the system...

Is this kind of change something that can be done just by changing
the server's config files?  Or would it involve rewriting code?