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SubjectRe: Bloat? (khttpd)
> Webservers usually serve a lot of small files (.html and .gif/.png). For
> benchmarks and other file-server like situations, latency counts above all.
>
> kHTTPd achieves this by _not_ doing the syscalls in #1, by not doing all
> the rare complex stuff (it "bounces" those requests to userspace), and by
> reducing the number of context-switches in the fast path.

# of syscalls is'nt the only thing which reduces latency and improves
performance here. Persistent connections also help (no tcp handshake,
tcp slowstart, ...). khttpd does'nt support this.

> Benchmarks. GNOME and KDE will provide transparent network-access through
> HTTP, for example. This will change HTTP in the direction of a file-server
> protocol, where latency counts.

For file-server stuff you'll probably want to use HTTP/1.1 features like
byteranges.

Gerd

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