Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 09 Jun 1999 16:49:02 +0200 | From | Jorge Gonzalez Villalonga <> | Subject | Re: Preparations for ZD's upcoming Apache/Linux benchmark |
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Thomas Wouters wrote:
> All in all, the setup gets fairly hairy, especially when you have to take > stupid users into account. I personally doubt the speed difference between > khttpd+apache and an optimized apache or zeus or other webservers is worth > the trouble, especially when you start taking disk and network i/o speed and > latency into account. I'd spend more time showing how Apache/linux > outperforms MS/IIS in real-world applications than confusing my own > supporters with FUD :-) > > But then, i might be wrong. i haven't seen much info on howmuch faster > khttpd could become, compared to a fast but simple httpd (and i gather there > isn't much, yet.) If the benifit is large enough, users will cope :-) >
I do _really_ agree with this. I think the people would be better helping in doing a well-behaved multithreaded (not multiprocess) Apache. Someone said two days ago that if we can not design eficient servers in user-space then it's the OS that needs to be fixed, and not the server moved into kernel space.
I have been using Linux for 5 years now (my first distro was a Slack 1.2, still have the CD ;-D), mainly for its _legendary_ stability, and with all this kernel-space-servers hype I'm starting to be afraid of my favorite OS becoming as unstable as my most hated other OS, which has moved a lot of things to kernel space...
I'm in no way a micro-kernel advocate, just a stability advocate. In my opinion, kernel things are much more risky than user space things, but surely there are more kernel geeks here with a more valuable opinion than mine...
Jorge
-- Jorge Gonzalez <jorgegv@icai.upco.es> -o) ICAI - Universidad Pontificia Comillas /\\ Administrador de Sistemas _\_v
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