Re: Why khttpd is a bad idea (was a pointless argument about

Lars Marowsky-Bree (lmb@teuto.net)
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 22:14:06 +0200


On 1999-06-20T12:49:51,
Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> said:

> The idea is that userspace httpd doesn't do anything different from what
> it normally does. However I believe that better in-kernel httpd has to be
> more like a cache, and cache management can be done from userspace -- by
> httpd or separate program. That makes in-kernel part even smaller.

What you described above is called "squid", and is already working without any
additional kernel support at very high speed.

Even though I assume it would also profit from an async sendfile().

Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée

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