On 9/27/07, John Buckman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When comparing lighthttpd vs aolserver, notice that aolserver only > does worse than lighthttpd for large files, and on the same file > system/hardware. Thus, the difference in benchmarks is not likely to > be the access logs or disk. > > Lighthttpd is *not* using the system call to send a file to a socket > (I forget the name) as this call was taken out of the Linux kernel, I > believe with 2.4. I remember reading a note about this from Linus, > that the performance for that system call was terrible, so they were > taking it out. > > Based on my own experience with sending large files over tcpip, the > difference is that aolserver uses a thread-based approach vs a > lighthttpd's single-thread async approach. >
> Maybe try the background delivery using libthread? http://openacs.org/xowiki/Boost_your_application_performance_to_serve_large_files%21 if it is actually an issue. Dave -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
