International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 12 - Number 9 |
Year of Publication: 2011 |
Authors: Syed Mutahar Aaqib, Lalitsen Sharma |
10.5120/1707-2271 |
Syed Mutahar Aaqib, Lalitsen Sharma . Analysis of Delivery of Web Contents for Kernel-mode and User-mode Web Servers. International Journal of Computer Applications. 12, 9 ( January 2011), 37-42. DOI=10.5120/1707-2271
In this paper, the architecture of kernel-mode and user-mode web-servers and the constraints that affect their performance are studied. A set of experiments have been performed to measure and analyze performance of kernel-mode and user-mode web servers on an open source Scientific Linux CERN platform. Web servers under study include kernel-mode TUX web server and user-mode Apache web server for varying static workload sizes. The results of the experiments revealed that the performance of kernel mode web servers greatly exceeds to that of user-space web servers.