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Chapter 17. Sockets > Pre-Forking Servers
17.12. Pre-Forking Servers
17.12.1. Problem
You want to write a server that concurrently processes several clients (as in "Forking Servers"), but connections are coming in so fast that forking slows the server too much.
17.12.2. Solution
Have a master server maintain a pool of pre-forked children, as shown in Example 17.5.
