[ILUG] Lightweight webserver

[Niall O Broin]

On Sunday 8 February 2004, colm at stdlib.net (Colm MacCarthaigh) wrote:

>> OK - I did wonder about. I thought perhaps people had just got bored
>> with the "our dick is bigger than IIS' dick" thing.
>
>Well IIS had in-kernel zero-copy going on before Linux could ever offer
>it, have to give them that ;)

That I knew, hence the comment, and the existence of khttpd, which was
to level the playing field web server benchmark wise. I guess, as you
(or somebody else) mentioned earlier, the existence of sendfile now
gives any webserver the zero-copy advantage, hence the need for khttpd
going.



Niall