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.
next prev parent 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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