[lug] [OT] Apache 1.3 vs. 2.0 on Linux

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

My company is getting ready to migrate from IIS to Apache on RHEL 3.0.
Our websites are written in Java, and run on Tomcat (with the web server
serving static content).

I did some research a while ago which suggests that the main benefit of
Apache 2.0 is its multithreadedness.  I am under the impression that the
overhead of forking processes in Linux is relatively low, and therefore
2.0 doesn't buy you much (especially considering the maturity and module
support of 1.3).

I googled a bit for a debate on the two, but I couldn't really find
anything specific to Linux.

Has anyone heard anything/thought/discussed this?

Thanks,
-d