Standard CGI Architecture

• Standard web server with CGI spawns a process for each CGI request and terminates it when the request is completed. This takes significant time and server resources.

Web Server

Main

Process

CGI Request #1

CGI Request #2

CGI Request #3

Child Process for Request #1

Child Process for Request #2

Child Process for Request #3

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