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Re: Re: Funny article


From: vb () dontpanic ulm ccc de
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 22:47:11 +0100

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 10:08:13AM -0600, Frank Knobbe wrote:
The reason IIS4+ runs as SYSTEM appears to be to gain performance.

Sorry, I do not understand that - why should that improve performance
if user SYSTEM is used and not a normal user?

I
guess running IIS as a kernel module and having less context switches
does do well for performance (like an Apache LKM), but unfortunately not
for security.

Perhaps one should better have a look at Felix von Leitners work
for doing scalable network programming.

VB.
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