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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] www-servers/boa wants YOU...
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 04:15:52
Message-Id: f45c3m$jlb$1@sea.gmane.org
1 ...to maintain it.
2
3 Boa is "a single-tasking HTTP server. That means that unlike
4 traditional Web servers, it does not fork for each incoming connection,
5 nor does it fork many copies of itself to handle multiple connections.
6 It internally multiplexes all of the ongoing HTTP connections, and forks
7 only for CGI programs (which must be separate processes), automatic
8 directory generation, and automatic file gunzipping. Tests show boa is
9 capable of handling up to several hundred hits per second on a 100 Mhz
10 Pentium, dozens of hits per second on a lowly 20 MHz 386/SX, and
11 thousands on more powerful CPUs."
12
13 It is currently under the mask of the tree-cleaners. However, Gentoo
14 user Jochen Schlick has made a case for keeping it around and has gone
15 as far as providing a fix for bug #102174, the bug that led to its
16 masking. Upstream appears dead, but boa is still being carried by
17 several other distros (fedora, debian, freebsd). There is one other
18 bug, #101600.
19
20 If you or your herd team (www-servers ping) can find a home for this
21 low-maintenance package, please add yourself to the metadata.
22
23 Thanks.
24
25 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102174
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27
28 --
29 where to now? if i had to guess
30 dirtyepic gentoo org i'm afraid to say antarctica's next
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Re: [gentoo-dev] www-servers/boa wants YOU... Bastiaan Visser <Bastiaan@××××××××××××.nl>