From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 18 11:46:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from patrocles.silby.com (d85.as6.nwbl0.wi.voyager.net [169.207.128.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64D5E37B400 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 11:46:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (silby@localhost) by patrocles.silby.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1IDoW949818; Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:50:46 GMT (envelope-from silby@silby.com) X-Authentication-Warning: patrocles.silby.com: silby owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:50:32 +0000 (GMT) From: Mike Silbersack To: Hiten Pandya Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: In-Kernel HTTP Server (name preference) In-Reply-To: <20020218180253.A5452@hpdi.ath.cx> Message-ID: <20020218134544.C48587-100000@patrocles.silby.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Hiten Pandya wrote: > hi all, > > As to conclude this thread (for me.), I have come to the decision of > actually starting a project for making a BSD Licensed in-kernel HTTPd > server. The project will be on SourceForge.net. > > As you all know, that when starting a project, a name is needed for > project; I completely out of ideas, and I have literally no creative > skills. :) If you want to be really useful, I have a better first step for you. :) Common wisdom seems to be that Apache is slow, other httpds are faster, custom ones are fastest. However, I don't think I've actually seen any comparisons since this one of thttpd vs others: http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/benchmarks.html Before starting work on a kernel httpd, you might wish to run similar benchmarks (with perhaps only 5 different httpds) to see what the current performance of FreeBSD is; it may turn out that some limitation in the TCP stack is hit even by userland httpds, and your effort would be better spent on fixing that first. FWIW, I have no ideas for the name of the benchmarking project. :) Mike "Silby" Silbersack To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message