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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: Negative scalability by removal of lock_kernel()?(Was:
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> The big question is: why is Apache using file locking so
> much?  Is this normal behaviour for Apache?

Apache uses file locking to serialize accept on hosts where accept either has
bad thundering heard problems or was simply broken with multiple acceptors


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