The C10K problem It's time for web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously, don't you think After all, the web is a big place now. And computers are big, too. You can buy a 1000MHz machine with 2 gigabytes of RAM and an 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet card for $1500 or so. Let's see - at 20000 clients, that's 500KHz, 100Kbytes, and 50Kbits/sec per client. It shouldn't take any more ...

HTTP Performance Overview This page is devoted to information about how to improve HTTP/1.1 performance. Most of the results are derived from experiences with Jigsaw, Apache and the libwww implementations of HTTP/1.1. Papers Compression and Performance HTTP and TCP Interactions HTTP and System Overhead TCP Analysis Tools Also see the HTTP Overview and the HTTP/1.1 Implementor's Forum for ...

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Analysis of HTTP Performance Joe Touch, John Heidemann, and Katia Obraczka USC/Information Sciences Institute August 16, 1996 Initial Release, V1.2 Abstract: We discuss the performance effects of using per-transaction TCP connections for HTTP access, and the proposed optimizations of avoiding per-transaction re-connection and TCP slow-start restart overheads. We analyze the performance penalties ...