Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:17:59 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Linux and Apache performance, Update |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > In article <7j9h20$jfv$1@palladium.transmeta.com> you wrote: > > > One interesting thing is that Network Applicance's tanks can speak > > HTTP for static data serving. They then recommend a tranditional host > > for the dynamic content. There should be no reason why you couldn't > > run a super-fast static page server *and* a good dynamic server at the > > same time. > > Hi, > > There is something similar for Linux. (I am developping it). > It is called "khttpd" and is basically a kernel-module doing httpd for > static pages and for dynamic-content, Apache (or any other webserver) is > used. > > Static httpd in the kernel makes somewhat sense (the problem is similar to > nfsd), and performance looks good (ie. very close to Zeus). If you saw the > website (from the C'T guy) mentioned earlier in this thread, it showed NT > doing 1400 requests/second on a 4x Xeon with his program. My 350Mhz K6-2 > does that with two fingers in the nose... >
Yes it does; basically you have an engine in the kernel doing copyfile() without even bouncing to a user-space server. You can run it on a different port than the "main", dynamic, server for serving pictures and so on...
I think this is a killer combination...
-hpa
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