Low Impact

• Designed to be a small, fast server.

  Has a low impact on system resources, allowing it to serve documents to a large number of users simultaneously with little slowdown. With the amount of traffic www.ncsa.uiuc.edu gets, this was required.

• Runs standalone, for faster performance, or under inetd.

• Consumes little memory

  The source for the server is only 2,500 lines of C code, making for a small binary. It currently utilizes only about 4K of memory for its data.

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