...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 -- 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) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
