Probabilistic application-level connection scheduling in Web servers

The various aspects and benefits offered by probabilistic application-level connection scheduling in web servers are discussed. Many traditional web servers let the operating system decide the connection scheduling, which is the order in requests are serviced, and in fact, most simply do on a first-come first-served bases. Application-level connection scheduling lets server administrators specify the scheduling rules they want to impose, rather than relying on programmers to do it. Application-level scheduling can help solve the disproportional slowdown problem that often occurs in web servers that follow a process-per-connection (PPC) policy, in which a single process services a request from start to finish.