Re: kHTTPd: Good or Bad

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Sat, 19 Jun 1999 18:06:31 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> So don't cache the data twice, use the page cache. The page cache wants to
> be you friend. I'd agree caching twice is stupid.
> Basically instead of khttpd getting requests khttpd sits waiting to be told
> "here is a socket, here is a file, do your stuff then kick me."

So you are talking about some sort of asynchronous sendfile daemon.
kaiod?

Its still dependent on the speed of the underlying webserver though, how
fast it can accept() and manage incoming connections.

-Dan

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