Re: Tux in main kernel tree? (was khttpd rotten?)

Diego Calleja (DiegoCG@teleline.es)
Mon, 6 May 2002 21:07:27 +0200


On Mon, 6 May 2002 14:42:08 -0400
John Stoffel <stoffel@casc.com> escribió:
> And why does a Web server belong in the kernel? I've never understood
> this, and I personally do not think it has any need to be there.

But *f I have a dedicated web server, and I have a lot of traffic, *if* (and only if)
I can take some performance advantages
from putting a web server into kernel space, I'd like to have those advantages.

>
> <sarcasm>
>
> Or maybe we should include kDNS and kftpd as well now?

Why not for dedicated servers if this can take some advantages for them?

>
> </sarcasm>
>
> An httpd server is a *user space* issue, not a kernel issue.

It's true. But I'd be an idiot if I can improve performance and I don't do it.

However, if an httpd can be as fast as an kernel space httpd it'd be a bad thing to put it
in kernel space.

>
> John
> John Stoffel - Senior Unix Systems Administrator - Lucent Technologies
> stoffel@lucent.com - http://www.lucent.com - 978-399-0479
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