Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Jun 1999 22:14:06 +0200 | From | Lars Marowsky-Bree <> | Subject | Re: Why khttpd is a bad idea (was a pointless argument about |
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On 1999-06-20T12:49:51, Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> said:
> The idea is that userspace httpd doesn't do anything different from what > it normally does. However I believe that better in-kernel httpd has to be > more like a cache, and cache management can be done from userspace -- by > httpd or separate program. That makes in-kernel part even smaller.
What you described above is called "squid", and is already working without any additional kernel support at very high speed.
Even though I assume it would also profit from an async sendfile().
Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Brée
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