Hi all,

I'm currently working on... of all things, a book on book about web app 
programming with perl/apache/mysql, and I'm trying to explain what 
Ubuntu packages to use for installation (and I'm sure other Linux 
variants same applies)

Ubuntu gives you:

apache2-mpm-prefork
apache2-prefork-dev
apache2-mpm-worker
apache2-threaded-dev 

I've used both prefork and worker (as of late, due to concerns with 
forking), both of which seem to work fine. Though, the DBI documentation 
warns of caveats of using threaded, especially if the client is not 
thread safe (I always compile mysql with a thread-safe client, and 
DBD::mysql against that thread safe client).

So... I'm trying to decide if I should explain

1. There are issues with using threads - what all are they?
2. What they should use- prefork or worker?
3. What is the consensus?
4. Is there a document available giving the pros and cons?
5. What is the official state of Perl with regards to threading?

As an author, I'm thinking I don't want to give advice, only inform.

Thanks for you inputs, advice, suggestions, etc.

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Satyam Eva Jayate - Truth Alone Triumphs
Mundaka Upanishad