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Flash: An efficient and portable Web server

Vivek S. Pai Peter Druschel Willy Zwaenepoel
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department of Computer Science
Rice University

• Abstract
• Introduction
• Background
• Server Architectures
  • Multi-process
  • Multi-threaded
  • Single-process event-driven
  • Asymmetric Multi-Process Event-Driven
• Design comparison
  • Performance characteristics
  • Cost/Benefits of optimizations & features
• Flash implementation
  • Overview
  • Pathname Translation Caching
  • Response Header Caching
  • Mapped Files
  • Byte Position Alignment
  • Dynamic Content Generation
  • Memory Residency Testing
• Performance Evaluation
  • Synthetic Workload
  • Trace-based experiments
  • Flash Performance Breakdown
  • Performance under WAN conditions
• Related Work
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Bibliography
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