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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Fork Post 5706 by wee on Tuesday 21st of August 2001 01:12:37 AM
Old 08-21-2001
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Hi,
I'm new to programming under unix too, and I'm trying to implement a load balancing system for web traffic.

The idea is this,
I have a single web server running on PC A, and I have 5 other PCs (PC B - PC F) running only mysql servers. Assuming all the databases contain synchronized data, I would like to implement a database search facility where the web server receives the input, split the input keywords into single keywords and using fork() in the cgi-script, spawn multiple child processes to issue seperate queries to each of the database servers via different connection strings to receive the result.

Will this result in a much faster response time than just running a single database server and searching all the keywords serially ?
Is there a better way to do it besides forking ? What are the drawbacks of forking and implementing it this way ?

Sample code would very much be appreciated.
Thanks,
Wee
 

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