Miguel Mendez wrote: > As others have pointed out, it may have big hacker value, but no one > would use it for anything serious. AFAIK there's no such thing for > FreeBSD, but one thing I remember, is that once the Linux kernel incorporated > the zero copy netowrking code, userland HTTP servicing like Tux saw it's > performance increase on par with khttpd, so it seems that's not worth to > run a http server in kernel space.
First, livelock means that top end load on a khttpd will be higher than top end load on a user http, where there is so much interrupt traffic that the user space never gets to run. Actually, Alfred claims to be the first person to pre-load porn into the FreeBSD kernel, and his approach seriously predates the khttpd work. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
