Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Francis Dubé
Hi everyone, I posted last week about my webserver hitting the kernel's max process allowed (error : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC). As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests, the biggest part of

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Francis Dubé wrote: As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests, the biggest part of the requests the server have to process. Most of the websites hosted on the server have approximately 200 small images with a size between 1k and

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Paul A. Procacci
Francis Dubé wrote: Hi everyone, I posted last week about my webserver hitting the kernel's max process allowed (error : collecting pv entries -- suggest increasing PMAP_SHPGPERPROC). As a part of the solution, I decided to build a jail with a light webserver dedicated to images requests,

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Paul A. Procacci
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: They are both good static content servers. You can easily max out a GiGe link using either. We use lighttpd more extensively than nginx, however we do use both. Quite frankly, it's truthfully up to you. Performance wise, they are on par with once another. ~Paul

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Dan
Matthew Seaman([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2008.11.03 19:59:56 +: Francis Dub? wrote: Which one do you suggest and why ? nginx. Lighttpd has remote security holes once in a while. nginx has better security design and is more modular and faster. It happens to also be feature-rich, which is not easy

Re: Images-only webserver, lighttpd vs NginX

2008-11-03 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
They are both good static content servers. You can easily max out a GiGe link using either. We use lighttpd more extensively than nginx, however we do use both. Quite frankly, it's truthfully up to you. Performance wise, they are on par with once another. ~Paul at the risk of being