[gkulewski]

Originally Posted by mistwang

What you want is in the mind of event-driven and perfork server, it has serious scalability issue, imagine when you want to put 2000 accounts on one server, there is going to be too many processes, and forking processes frequently is not a good idea either.

If we have 2000 active accounts at once (during say 1-2 minute window) then we are going to die even with suEXEC and only way to survive is to disable all such features.

But on typical hosting we may have 2000 accounts but we have say 20 active during one time. If so we can enable suEXEC or my idea and selectively spawn and kill processes when needed (still max is one httpd per user).

I don't know how big lsws process is but lighttpd is < 1MB of RAM. And PHP with accelerator is usually between 5MB and 50MB. So I would say if you can do suPHP then you can do suHTTPD as well.

But I accept your decision to stay with your current architecture.