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I imagine the thinking was similar to that behind FreeBSD's accf_http kernel module? https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?accf_http https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/m
by kogir 12y ago
I imagine the thinking was similar to that behind FreeBSD's accf_http kernel module? https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?accf_http https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?accf_http
HTTP.sys obviously does a lot more, but especially back in the Windows 2000 days, the performance difference was substantial.
- justincormack 12y agoLinux used to have in kernel httpd too, called tux[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server