# Passenger and apache: worker or prefork

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-and-apache-worker-or-prefork/188605>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 14, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-and-apache-worker-or-prefork/188605 "2010-05-14T17:56:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![eugenio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ec9cab/32.png) [@eugenio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eugenio)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-and-apache-worker-or-prefork/188605/1 "2010-05-14T17:56:10Z")

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i’m going to install apache and passenger on a intel atom dual (dual  
core).  
is it better to install apache-worker or apache-prefork?

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**Author:** ![eugenio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/ec9cab/32.png) [@eugenio](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/eugenio)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/passenger-and-apache-worker-or-prefork/188605/2 "2010-05-15T21:06:17Z")

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If you are on multicore with more than two processors, I’d run worker to  
save memory and get a slight performance boost, otherwise run prefork.

-j