Re: khttpd newbie problem

Ken Brownfield (ken@irridia.com)
Wed, 8 May 2002 22:21:20 -0500


On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:55:09PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
| Anton Blanchard wrote:
| > > I'm having an oops with khttpd on an embedded 2.4.17 ppc405
| > > system, so I thought I'd try it out on my pc. But I can't
| > > get khttpd to serve any requests.
| >
| > Any reason for not using tux? Its been tested heavily on ppc64,
| > the same patches should work on ppc32.
|
| That's an excellent suggestion. It certainly seems that khttpd
| is no longer production quality (if it ever was), and tux is.

khttpd is very much production quality on IA32, and has been since
2.4.0-test1. TUX2 is not, however, since under load it enters a 99% CPU
busy loop. You may not have enough load to cause TUX2 to do this, and
TUX1 may not have this problem.

| I'm on an embedded system, so if tux is much larger, I'll
| be annoyed; but the system does have 64 MB, so it's not *that*
| cramped. And working is much better than crashing.

khttpd is extremely dependent on alignment and data sizes -- the
filename extension handling is deeply unfunny* for example. khttpd most
likely has a problem with PPC (endian, etc). Are you applying any other
patches that could conflict?

-- 
Ken.
ken@irridia.com

* phrase plagiarized from ac

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