On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:39 PM, Kirk Haines <wyhaines-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
On Linux (and some other *nixes), there's a funky little thing that
happens when a process that is bound to a socket is forked.
All of the forked processes are also bound to the socket, and the
kernel will distribute connections between them. It's a low cost way
to load balance between workers on a machine that is running an OS
which will support it.