- The prefork MPM provides a non-threaded, pre-forking implementation
- that handles requests in a manner similar to Apache 1.3. It is not as
- fast as threaded models, but is considered to be more stable. It is
- appropriate for sites that need to maintain compatibility with
- non-thread-safe libraries, and is the best MPM for isolating each
- request, so that a problem with a single request will not affect any
- other.
+ The prefork MPM provides a non-threaded implementation using a variable
+ number of processes where each process handles only one connection
+ at the same time. It is not as fast as threaded models, but is considered to
+ be more stable. It is appropriate for sites that need to maintain
+ compatibility with non-thread-safe libraries, and is the best MPM for
+ isolating each request, so that a problem with a single request will not
+ affect any other.