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To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch>
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Subject: Re: in-kernel web server???
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hi guys

have this list server had a beer too much? I seem to get these messages
over and over...

On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote:

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> Hello Roy,
>
> Sunday, December 16, 2001, 7:02:46 PM, you wrote:
>
> > I've been trying to setup a pretty weird system with Linux and the
> > in-kernel web server Tux. This gives me quite good I/O, and with
> > zero-copy memory operation, this is FAST!
>
> > Problem: Linux caching/buffering sucks, and by reading lots of
> > large files at once (some 200 files, each 3-4GB), the system slows
> > down to a mere 1MB/sec after 30-40 seconds.
>
> > Are there any Tux/khttpd-like (in-kernel) web servers for FreeBSD?
>
> I think putting a webserver in the kernel is a pretty stupid thing to
> do since this means that you either can serve statical content only
> or
> you need some mechanism to cope with dynamic content (one could
> somehow communicate with a userland PHP version, sure, but how much
> would this gain, then?). Further, it imposes a lot of security
> issues.
>
> There are many very small webservers which are mainly made to serve
> statical content. Although these probably have higher resource
> requirements I think the benefit of being able to easily run them on
> systems with more than one CPU could help a lot.
>
>
> Best regards,
>  Gabriel
> "
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Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

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