What are the effective differences between child_process.fork and cluster.fork?

Question

I understand that cluster.fork will allow for multiple processes to listen on the same port(s), what I also want to know is how much additional overhead is there in supporti

Answer 1

cluser.fork is implemented on top of child_process.fork. The extra stuff that cluster.fork brings is that, it will enable you to listen on a shared port. If you don't want it, just use child_process.fork. So yeah, use cluster for web servers and child_process for workers.