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Covalent And Redhat Developing 64 bit Apache
ruiner5000 writes "Well it is official. AMD has just sent out a press release announcing that Covalent and Redhat are developing a 64 bit version of Apache. "Covalent is developing 64-bit compatibility because we believe the upcoming AMD Opteron processor-based server systems will deliver superior performance and reliability for our easy-to-install Apache project server software," said Mark Douglas, senior vice president of engineering, Covalent Technologies. "Compatibility is essential, and we are cooperatively working to ensure optimal performance with the upcoming AMD Opteron processors." "
The worst thing that could happen under the GPL (which you brought into the discussion) is that we have to separate the wheat of their contributions from the chaff and fork.
The same isn't true with the Apache license, but the trump card with people playing games with Free Software is to fork.
Open Source projects should be managed and developed by an unbiased group of developers.
Do you mean unbiased, or biased the same way you are? While your biases (and mine) may be diametrically opposed to Covalent's, that doesn't make you (us) unbiased.
-Peter
Lots of active connections handled by the same process can result in lots of mmaps. If these
:) that would be a nice improvement
are large you can start getting worried about
running out of address space with a 32-bit process.
Also, perhaps sendfile works with large file support on Linux in 64-bit mode
For most situations a 64-bit Apache process isn't going to solve any problems right now. I imagine
it will just use more memory.
What is "companies' subvertion of Apache"? Which companies have done what to Apache httpd, in your opinion?
Can I ask you what processor you use? If its an Intel or AMD, then you are supporting DRM by purchasing their processors. That goes for anything you purchase made by one or both of those two companies. Also, do you own a stand-alone DVD player?
IBM started and still contributes to Jakarta as well as EVMS (which might go into the Linux kernel). Transmeta is hoping on the MS bandwagon as even partially owned by a MS employee and Linus Torvalds works there. Ted Tso works for IBM and he heavily contributes to ext2 and ext3. The German government is funding a KDE groupware project.
Why is AMD helping a port to their new process for Apache? Well hmm, lets see. If they can show this port will run X percent faster than an if Apache was run on an Intel processor, and with Apache being the most used web server, they can increase their sales. So they spend a few thousand dollars, chump change for them for a potentially much much higher return.
Maybe OS projects should be managed and developed by an unbiased group of developers, but who's going to fund them. If they have to get other jobs so they can put food on the table, it will take much longer to create these projects. So if you would prefer that, then start donating. Otherwise, shut up and wake up to reality.