Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 17:30:08 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net>, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020217173008.E80718@nexus.root.com> In-Reply-To: <3C7056F9.A9F37535@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 05:20:57PM -0800 References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0202171935060.6486-100000@mustard.heime.net> <3C703A92.2EBD3E67@mindspring.com> <20020217170929.D80718@nexus.root.com> <3C7056F9.A9F37535@mindspring.com>
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>I'll agree with your experience. At this point, the limiting >factor is PCI bandwith, at least for general purpose hardware. I haven't found PCI bandwidth to be a problem, either, at least when using gigabit ethernet NICs on 64bit and/or 66MHz PCI. When one writes an efficient HTTP server that takes a tiny amount of memory per process and uses sendfile() to crank out the bits, the bottleneck becomes the CPU for doing context switches, packet header creation, and TCP protocol processing. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com President, Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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