[mapserver-users] thread safety and php and fastcgi

[William Kyngesburye]

On Sep 2, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Frank Warmerdam wrote:

> In the case of FastCGI the fastcgi mapserver process is only given one
> cgi request at a time to handle.  It won't be given another until the
> previous one is complete.  Apache can start multiple separate FastCGI
> MapServer instances in order to handle multiple requests at once but
> they each have their own process.  So, FastCGI does not have
> multi-threading issues.  It does occationally run into issues with
> memory leaks or "left over state" from a previous cgi request.
> 
Thanks.

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