Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 14:40:20 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net> Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <3C703154.91ED7FB4@mindspring.com> References: <20020217143343.41758.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> <20020217173609.A25030@energyhq.homeip.net>
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Miguel Mendez wrote: > As others have pointed out, it may have big hacker value, but no one > would use it for anything serious. AFAIK there's no such thing for > FreeBSD, but one thing I remember, is that once the Linux kernel incorporated > the zero copy netowrking code, userland HTTP servicing like Tux saw it's > performance increase on par with khttpd, so it seems that's not worth to > run a http server in kernel space. First, livelock means that top end load on a khttpd will be higher than top end load on a user http, where there is so much interrupt traffic that the user space never gets to run. Actually, Alfred claims to be the first person to pre-load porn into the FreeBSD kernel, and his approach seriously predates the khttpd work. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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