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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Ted Merrill <atheros@embuildsw.com>
Subject: Re: khttpd fate
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:36:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A665F09.7050104@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090722002039.GF11051@bombadil.infradead.org>

On 07/21/2009 05:20 PM, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> 
> I think it kind of got replaced by tux, which Red Hat shipped for a
> while, but has been dropped now. I seem to recall davej mentioning a
> while ago that apache had gotten much better at serving static content,
> which is what khttpd/tux were very good at.
> 

Also, lighttpd does really well, all in userspace.  After all, static
http serving really is mostly a bit of header parsing followed by
sendfile(), so as long as a user-space process doesn't just sit on a
bunch of memory it can be done very cheaply.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-22  0:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-18  1:15 khttpd fate Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-07-22  0:20 ` Kyle McMartin
2009-07-22  0:36   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-07-22  1:57     ` Dave Jones
2009-07-22  4:47       ` H. Peter Anvin

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