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