Comparing the performance of web server architectures

Operating Systems Review (ACM)

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 231-243

  Pariag, David ^a   Brecht, Tim ^a   Harji, Ashif ^a   Buhr, Peter ^a   Shukla, Amol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Events; Performance; Scalability; Threads; Web servers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; WEB SERVICES; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; PIPELINES; SCALABILITY;

SERVER ARCHITECTURES; SINGLE PROCESS EVENT-DRIVEN (SPED); STAGED EVENT-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE (SEDA);

SERVERS;

CONNECTION MODEL; DYNAMIC CONTROLS; EVENT DRIVEN; EVENT-BASED; EVENT-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURES; MULTI-PROCESSORS; NON-BLOCKING; PERFORMANCE SCALABILITY; SERVER ARCHITECTURE; SINGLE PROCESS; WEB SERVER ARCHITECTURE; WEB SERVERS; ZERO-COPY;

EID: 34548030451     PISSN: 01635980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1272996.1273021     Document Type: Conference Paper

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