Re: Bloat? (khttpd)

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Thu, 23 Dec 1999 12:55:01 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 23 Dec 1999, Marek Habersack wrote:

> > > Performance. The apache/khttpd combo beats the shit out of NT in most
> > > benchmarks.
> >
> > Maybe so, but why don't we put Quake into the kernel, too? You would get
> > great performance, but something like that simply belongs in user space. I
> > don't think Linux deserves the benchmarks it gets if it cheats to get
> > them. We shouldn't let politics allow us to employ bad design (If a
> > registry ala Windows was a performance issue, would we use it? No,
> > because it makes a mess of everything).
> >
> > An HTTP server is something that should be in a patch, not the main kernel
> > tree. (Heck, software suspend and the PC-speaker driver should go in
> > before khttpd does.)

> Come on, I don't understand the noise. You don't like it, you don't use it.
> After all compiling it in is OPTIONAL, right?

Downloading it isn't. Also, it sounds like it may be mucking in other
places it shouldn't be... I don't know much about that though, just saw someone
else mention it.

Stephen

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