Re: [cobalt-users] Red Hat Tux 2.0 blows away Apache

["MikeM" <MyRaQ@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 6/20/01 at 5:29 PM Paul wrote:

| >ZD is running a story about the Tux webserver that RedHat has built.
| >3 times the speed of Apache.  Hmmm...
| 
| Just a few thoughts on this new whiz-bang-change-the-world Web server:
| 
| Apache was designed to be moderately fast, free, and run on as many server
| hardware and software configurations as possible. That's why it is the
| main
| Web server software out on the Internet. Sure, it doesn't support every
| feature you want, but you can easily hack it/patch it/"modulize" it to fit
| your needs. It's not extremely fast, but how many people REALLY get
| several
| thousand transactions PER SECOND?
| In contrast Tux seems to only work well with Linux 2.4, and on certain
| platforms. SSL? Nope, but "it's in development."
| IMHO, people will not go for fickle, new server software that's not
| thoroughly tested for the sake of more transactions per second, unless
| they
| are running something like CNN.com.
| Paul
| 


The Tux webserver is merely the first of what will most likely become a number of web servers that are 'integrated into the kernel'.  One of the benefits of this type of architecture is speed.  One of the disadvantages is a loss of isolation and the protection it provides.

Good grief, didn't anyone learn *anything* when Microsoft integrated the GDI layer into ring 0 for NT 4.0?