Re: InfoWorld web server shootout
Paul H. Hargrove (hargrove@sccm.Stanford.EDU)
Tue, 8 Jul 1997 22:16:51 -0700 (PDT)
Alan Cox writes:
[snip]
> In terms of a pure speed web server for static data (where mmap is a big win)
> the right way[TM] is probably to preindex all the files you can serve and
> to mmap the lot into memory at setup time with a one page gap between them
> that contains precomputed HTML headers for each page.
[snip]
> I suspect you can
> probably serve a web page in about 20 syscalls, less if the headers arrive
> in one chunk from the client.
>
> Now that would be THE web server of choice for porn sites 8)
>
> Alan
Certainly any decent porn site has more "content" than will mmap into
the 4GB memory space of an x86. I guess it's time to drop the Intel
platforms and use Alphas for serious porn sites. ;-)
Seriously though, the idea sounds great for servers with small enough content.
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