Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 20:26:19 +0100 (CET) From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net> To: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: in-kernel web server??? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112182025440.31236-100000@mustard.heime.net> In-Reply-To: <1461061760260.20011216203841@buz.ch>
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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: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > 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 > " > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 6.5i > > iQEVAwUBPBzqNcZa2WpymlDxAQH5GggAoIeb7MI9Pctc1jarCGQgRTDL2StSFl1h > N1uICL5TvakMz9QQ8vZkwRiybbbD/lidTFRLpHSsz9eqQZ7RdKDnUIZrG0CPIzdr > DpH8yjZkXXMzmgmKob76G46zWyq4aVsuchtKN4T3loLnRUwwZMyOjQKWYJlmUrRB > JFuvUZwqBXhWAtrXKBCeBC4BdcopsbItSGn2Tim0bFslBfLKw7DxhoUcZnpf6XmR > BKi6kCggQNLs73483zvYrP+paM/KM6zKA7hf67VdRXVmUMrEEAVT/mpIpj0YG7G1 > xC8r3zH4Gv0rijiBQPGLXfJMzq4cyTgxhCwyyll02/J50In2DWIBYA== > =prXK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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