Case Study: Boosting Apache with khttpd
One enhancement added to the new 2.4 kernel is the http kernel daemon, khttpd. This daemon is a very basic Web server that handles static Web pages, copying them to the network without processing. Some of you might be thinking that this is overkill, a kernel daemon Web server. But if you think about it this way, it makes sense:
Many Web sites use mostly static pages.
Static pages are just copied to the network unchanged.
Apache, or any other Web server, has to call on the kernel to perform the actual copy to network anyway (after processing the file itself, often a lengthy process).
The kernel Web daemon just copies static pages to the network, bypassing the overhead of a large program like Apache and all ...
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