Category: Performance

This chapter is part of a series of articles on Linux application performance. The iterative network server is one of the earliest programs you might have written if you ever took a course or read a book on network programming. These type of servers are not very useful except for learning network programming or in…

Articles in this series Part I. Iterative Servers Part II. Forking Servers Part III. Pre-forking Servers Part IV. Threaded Servers Part V. Pre-threaded Servers Part VI: poll-based server Part VII: epoll-based server On HackerNews There are several interesting takeaways from the HackerNews thread for this article series. Do check it out. Web apps are the…