Re: questions on thttpd-notimeout package

[Ivan Voras <ivoras@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

rmkml wrote:

> what performance compared apache ?
>
> what tested/results performance with thttpd ??

> PS: Maybe add web page for performance comparaison ?


No, no, you missed the point entirely. Thttpd isn't here because it's 
fast or such - in DFly it's used because it's small. Last time I checked 
the binary was about 65K (and you only need the binary executable to run 
it; no config files or anything; it's an excellent little server).

See http://www.acme.com/software/thttpd/ for details (in short: for 
dynamic pages it only has CGI support (no "php-modules", and running PHP 
as CGI is slow), it's VERY fast for serving static content, and can't 
utilize SMP (because it's single-threaded asynchrounous server[*])).


[*] Since DFlys' TCP stack is (somewhat?) threaded, would even such 
applications benefit from MP?