BTW: This is leading up to a draft ARC Case for Lighttpd integration into OpenSolaris which I'll post early next week.
Amanda Amanda Waite wrote: > Following Rahul's excellent example for SquidCache, I've compiled a list > of Lighttpd features either enabled or disabled at build time for > various distros of Lighttpd and added a brief description of what you > get when you enable each. These features are enabled/disabled via flags > passed to the configure script. > > The list is here: http://wikis.sun.com/display/WebStack/LighttpdDistros > > For me the key factors in deciding what features to enable and which to > disable, seem to be: > - User demand > - Availability of dependent libraries (i.e. OpenSSL and pcre) > - Any performance impact enabling a feature might have > - The cumulative affect on performance of enabling features > > I'm sending out a message to the Lighttpd user aliases and fora to see > if I can get any data on what Users would like to see and I'll also ping > Jan - the Lighttpd lead to see if he has a view. I think that in terms > of library dependencies, for now we'll have to go without support for > SQLite. We should be good with the others if we decide to go with them, > unless anyone can see any problems. > > In my view the five that all of the distros sampled enable should stay. > These are bzip2, zlib, crypt, SSL and pcre. I could do some basic > performance testing with all of the features enabled but how useful is > this? It's useful if it shows up potential problems, but there are only > a limited number of Use Cases you can test for. > > Most of us on the alias will have a view of what features would and > would not be useful so please chip in with any comments or questions. > > Another question that I'm just going to throw out there. What compiler > flags should we use for building Lighttpd? It's not a very CPU hungry > application. All of the testing I've done with Lighttpd have been done > with Lighttpd built with a generic set of compiler flags. I know there > have been some extended discussions about this for other integrations in > the past. > > BTW: Lighttpd makes use of sendfilev and dev/poll and we have an > implementation of Solaris Event Ports that we are hoping to get putback > into the Lighttpd commons. These all often appear in feature lists (as > do Linux kqueue and epoll) but they are enabled dependent on the platform. > > Thanks > > Amanda > > _______________________________________________ > > > webstack-discuss mailing list > webstack-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/webstack-discuss >
