Ok, here is a little test prog with
HTTP::Daemon it has a smaller memfootprint than any of my apache servers and serves about 800 requests/sec for a "hello world" example.
Here is the output of ab followed by the script for your tests at home.
~/httpd/bin/ab -c 10 -n 500 http://peggy:9876/hello
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.69 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustec
+h.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apa
+che.org/
Benchmarking peggy (be patient)
Completed 100 requests
Completed 200 requests
Completed 300 requests
Completed 400 requests
Finished 500 requests
Server Software: libwww-perl-daemon/1.26
Server Hostname: peggy
Server Port: 9876
Document Path: /hello
Document Length: 12 bytes
Concurrency Level: 10
Time taken for tests: 0.621 seconds
Complete requests: 500
Failed requests: 0
Broken pipe errors: 0
Total transferred: 73500 bytes
HTML transferred: 6000 bytes
Requests per second: 805.15 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 12.42 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 1.24 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent request
+s)
Transfer rate: 118.36 [Kbytes/sec] received
#!/usr/bin/perl
use bytes;
use HTTP::Daemon;
use HTTP::Status;
$SIG{PIPE} = 'IGNORE';
my $res = HTTP::Response->new(RC_OK);
$res->content("Hello World\n");
$res->content_type('text/plain');
$|++;
my $d = HTTP::Daemon->new( LocalPort => 9876, ReuseAddr => 1 ) || die;
print "Please contact me at: <URL:", $d->url, ">\n";
for ( 1 .. 20 ) {
my $pid = fork;
next if $pid;
next unless defined $pid;
do {
flock $d, 2;
my $c = $d->accept;
flock $d, 8;
my $oldfh = select($c);
$|++;
select($oldfh);
while ( my $r = $c->get_request ) {
if ( $r->method eq 'GET' ) { #and $r->url->path eq "/hello" ) {
$c->send_response($res);
}
else {
$c->send_error(RC_FORBIDDEN);
}
}
$c->close;
undef($c);
} while (1);
exit 0;
}
while (1) { waitpid( -1, 0 ) }
