Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why khttpd is a bad idea (was a pointless argument about | Date | Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:04:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > ftp, even finger, > > High latency, request per connection design -- not exactly a thing > where performance improvements from async sendfile will be noticeable.
Scalability on ftp is important, async sendfile reduces switching overheads and thread count (remember 8K task struct/thread, cache and tlb overhead..)
> And IMHO the problem with the number of threads/processed necessary for > the implementation (that still can be managed efficiently) seems to be > so significant now because existing HTTP servers in all their forms > have large memory footprint thus causing unnecessary paging when the > number of requests increases.
So you want to solve the "its big" problem with "its big but I stuffed it in the kernel" ?
Apache doesnt use CLONE and VM sharing. That is an apache problem.
Alan
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