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Fast UNIX Servers

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Everyone ought start with Dan Kegel's classic site, "The C10K Problem" (still updated from time to time). Jeff Darcy's ["http://pl.atyp.us/content/tech/servers.html High-Performance Server Architecture"] is much of the same. Everything here is advanced followup material to these excellent works, and of course the books of W. Richard Stevens.

Queueing Theory