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KHB: Failure-oblivious computing

KHB: Failure-oblivious computing

Posted Jun 29, 2006 17:51 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
In reply to: KHB: Failure-oblivious computing by cventers
Parent article: KHB: Failure-oblivious computing

To expand on this a bit, the author alluded to the better performance of
the failure-oblivious Apache due to its workers not dying. The fact that
Apache breaks itself down into workers in this way is an important
reliability feature of Apache -- one that is capable of somewhat avoiding
denial of service attacks.


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