Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:33:37 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kblob discussion. Message-ID: <20000619203337.L17420@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200006200318.VAA15996@nomad.yogotech.com>; from nate@yogotech.com on Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:18:16PM -0600 References: <20000619172041.G37084@prism.flugsvamp.com> <200006192311.QAA10064@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <200006200318.VAA15996@nomad.yogotech.com>
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* Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> [000619 20:19] wrote: > > Actually, I think I'm looking at a *bigger* picture - what can we do to > > make FreeBSD a better platform for real-world applications? > > For a very common application, yes. WWW serving is not FreeBSD's strong > point, IMO. Nate, i don't think "out of touch" even begins to describe what your statement implies about your perceptions of FreeBSD's current userbase. > As a matter of fact, I'd venture to guess that FreeBSD is used in more > embedded systems as a 'network' platform than it's ever used as a WWW > server. Without hard proof I'd be pressed to see it either way. > However, it just so happens that recently it seems that Yahoo has been > pushing *HARD* for alot of WWW-server specific changes, that have little > usefulness outside of that specific application. I don't work for Yahoo. Don't blame Yahoo, blame me, I'm the one looking to make FreeBSD faster for network operations. Yahoo was perfectly happy keeping these changes private until I begged them for some tricks that would make us be able to serve that much content with so little CPU utilization. The accept filters are Yahoo's, kblob is mine. And I'd really appreciate you not 'blaming' a strong backer of FreeBSD for my actions. > > The ability to send static content in the most efficient manner possible > > is a key "big picture" item. You're so tied up in what would be the most > > wonderful engineering solution that you're completely ignoring this. > > You're so wrapped up with building WWW server that you've completely > ignored the rest of the developer community, who actually have needs for > something *more generic* that you're incapable of seeing the forest > since you've gotta cut down that one tree fast, and who gives a rip what > anyone else needs to do in the forest... Actually at this point I'm going to make kblob more modular even though nothing about it's current state prevents the expansion from happening at a later point. I'll have it up for review in a day or so. pfft. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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