Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:36:25 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: khttpd fate |
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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.
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