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...to maintain it. |
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Boa is "a single-tasking HTTP server. That means that unlike |
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traditional Web servers, it does not fork for each incoming connection, |
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nor does it fork many copies of itself to handle multiple connections. |
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It internally multiplexes all of the ongoing HTTP connections, and forks |
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only for CGI programs (which must be separate processes), automatic |
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directory generation, and automatic file gunzipping. Tests show boa is |
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capable of handling up to several hundred hits per second on a 100 Mhz |
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Pentium, dozens of hits per second on a lowly 20 MHz 386/SX, and |
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thousands on more powerful CPUs." |
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It is currently under the mask of the tree-cleaners. However, Gentoo |
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user Jochen Schlick has made a case for keeping it around and has gone |
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as far as providing a fix for bug #102174, the bug that led to its |
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masking. Upstream appears dead, but boa is still being carried by |
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several other distros (fedora, debian, freebsd). There is one other |
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bug, #101600. |
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If you or your herd team (www-servers ping) can find a home for this |
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low-maintenance package, please add yourself to the metadata. |
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Thanks. |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102174 |
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where to now? if i had to guess |
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dirtyepic gentoo org i'm afraid to say antarctica's next |
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9B81 6C9F E791 83BB 3AB3 5B2D E625 A073 8379 37E8 (0x837937E8) |
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