The long life of Apache httpd 2.4

Re:The long life of Apache httpd 2.4 by blacklion on Saturday May 20, 2023 @03:04PM (#36014640)

Does Apache can do zero-copy for static content? nginx could on properly configured system.

TLS kills this, alas, and, I think, with TLS OpenSSL will be bottleneck for static content, not server.

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Re:The long life of Apache httpd 2.4 by water9 on Saturday May 20, 2023 @04:14PM (#36015154)

I think it has more to do with the event driven nature of nginx vs the thread per connection nature of Apache.

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Re:The long life of Apache httpd 2.4 by toast0 on Saturday May 20, 2023 @10:13PM (#36017387)

If you're looking for this, you want kTLS, plus or minus nic accelerated kTLS. Read the Netflix CDN presentiatons for the state of the art, and see what you can make work with your system, etc.

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Re:The long life of Apache httpd 2.4 by blacklion on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:17AM (#36021827)

I know abut Netflix work, and even some of this work trickled down to base FreeBSD (and opensource), but is still very fragile, not completely open-sourced and require very special hardware (1 or 2 models of specific NICs with specific versions of firmware) to work.

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Re:The long life of Apache httpd 2.4 by rb12345 on Monday May 22, 2023 @08:51AM (#36030777)

"EnableSendfile On" will enable that on Apache, and has been around since Apache 2.0.44. It's not enabled by default though, and as you say, TLS breaks it.

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