Re: Why khttpd is a bad idea (was a pointless argument about
Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:48:31 -0700 (PDT)
On Sun, 20 Jun 1999, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 1999-06-20T12:49:51,
> Alex Belits <abelits@phobos.illtel.denver.co.us> said:
> > The idea is that userspace httpd doesn't do anything different from what
> > it normally does. However I believe that better in-kernel httpd has to be
> > more like a cache, and cache management can be done from userspace -- by
> > httpd or separate program. That makes in-kernel part even smaller.
> What you described above is called "squid", and is already working without any
> additional kernel support at very high speed.
squid is a bit of a userspace monster. its also not terribly fast
-Dan
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