From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 17 8:30:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from voi.aagh.net (pc1-hart4-0-cust168.mid.cable.ntl.com [62.254.84.168]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BAA737B400; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 08:30:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from freaky by voi.aagh.net with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16cUD7-000DmV-00; Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:30:45 +0000 Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2002 16:30:45 +0000 From: Thomas Hurst To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20020217163045.GB90303@voi.aagh.net> Mail-Followup-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org, hackers@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org References: <20020217143343.41758.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: Not much. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/4.5-PRERELEASE (i386) X-Uptime: 4:25PM up 59 days, 1:10, 4 users, load averages: 2.55, 2.64, 2.52 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Dag-Erling Smorgrav (des@ofug.org) wrote: > Hiten Pandya writes: > > Is there any In-Kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD, like there is kHTTPD > > for Linux? > > God forbid! Lots of hack value, sure, but not something you'd > seriously consider for production use. Don't functions like FreeBSD's zero-copy sendfile() provide similar performance benefits without the massive security issues? If the remaining speed "hog" of switching to userspace to process the request itself is causing noticable bottlenecks, I think that's a sign you need more Pentium than the service needs moving to the kernel :) -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky@aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/ - One of the disadvantages of having children is that they eventually get old enough to give you presents they make at school. -- Robert Byrne To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message