Tech Presentations

Presentation by Michael J. Radwin given at OSCON 2006 on July 27, 2006 (previously given at ApacheCon 2005).
Slides in HTML, PDF, PPT.

Interesting quotes:

• Still running Apache 1.3, actively porting to Apache 2.2 (2006)
• What’s wrong with threads?
  • too hard for most programmers to use
  • even for experts, development is painful
• Custom log files format
• Signal-free log rotation
• Bandwidth reduction
  • Smaller 30x bodies
  • Custom gzip
• No need for StartServers, MaxSpareServers, MinSpareServers - just MaxClients (constant pool size)
• Accept Filtering on FreeBSD
• SendBufferSize 229376, NO_LINGCLOSE - don’t wait for the client to read the response
• YahooHostHtmlComment
• SSL Acceleration cards, stunnel
• ysar