Web stuff
Polling vs interrupt:
- interrupt can thrash the server under heavy load
- Mogul/Ramakrishnan @WRL, Soft timers (Aron/Druschel@Rice)
Hacking select(2), accept(2) (Banga/Druchel)
- Squid spends ~50% of CPU there
Clustering, load balancing: Fox@UCB/Stanford, LARD(Rice)