Although we tend to think of web servers as massive engines serving zillions of little clients out there, this is more true of the hardware than of the software, where things are the other way round. The http daemon running on http://wearables.stanford.edu was Apache and was pretty small even then, but is now Boa and is even smaller, and has the advantage of not forking a process for every client and can thus in principle support a much higher load, important for a one-cubic-inch web server. Here's the line from 'top' right now while my matchbox server, http://wearables.stanford.edu, is serving 4 hits/minute (no load at all as far as %CPU is concerned, but note the size of 828 KB, which easily fits.) PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 196 nobody 8 0 828 828 472 S 0 3.4 5.6 198:40 boa Clients are another thing altogether. Netscape is huge. Are there any smaller X11 or libsvga browsers for Linux? Vaughan -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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