Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Dec 1999 19:07:05 +0100 | From | Martin Dalecki <> | Subject | Re: Bloat? (khttpd) |
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"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Followup to: <19991223013142.F3089@uni-mainz.de> > By author: Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 05:58:16PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote: > > > Does someone have Linus's take on why on earth he let something that > > > should definitely be in user-space (the httpd) into the kernel? It seems > > > absurd to me, and odd that Linus would allow it. > > > > Performance. The apache/khttpd combo beats the shit out of NT in most > > benchmarks. > > > > Performance, and *modularity*. khttpd doesn't affect anything else in > the kernel, and so is a rather harmless optional feature.
There where times where for example /proc was an option too...
-- Marcin Dalecki
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