Re: Bloat? (khttpd)
H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
22 Dec 1999 17:16:39 -0800
Followup to: <19991223013142.F3089@uni-mainz.de>
By author: Dominik Kubla <dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Wed, Dec 22, 1999 at 05:58:16PM -0600, Dwayne C . Litzenberger wrote:
> > Does someone have Linus's take on why on earth he let something that
> > should definitely be in user-space (the httpd) into the kernel? It seems
> > absurd to me, and odd that Linus would allow it.
>
> Performance. The apache/khttpd combo beats the shit out of NT in most
> benchmarks.
>
Performance, and *modularity*. khttpd doesn't affect anything else in
the kernel, and so is a rather harmless optional feature.
-hpa
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