NAME

Starwoman - because Starman does the same thing over and over again expecting different results

VERSION

version 0.001

SYNOPSIS

  # Run app.psgi with the default settings
  > starwoman

  # run with Server::Starter
  > start_server --port 127.0.0.1:80 -- starwoman --workers 32 myapp.psgi

  # UNIX domain sockets
  > starwoman --listen /tmp/starwoman.sock

Read more options and configurations by running `perldoc starwoman` (lower-case s).

DESCRIPTION

Starwoman is a PSGI perl web server that has unique features such as:

High Performance

Uses the fast XS/C HTTP header parser

Preforking

Spawns workers preforked like most high performance UNIX servers do. Starwoman also reaps dead children and automatically restarts the worker pool.

Signals

Supports HUP for graceful worker restarts, and TTIN/TTOU to dynamically increase or decrease the number of worker processes, as well as QUIT to gracefully shutdown the worker processes.

Superdaemon aware

Supports Server::Starter for hot deploy and graceful restarts.

Multiple interfaces and UNIX Domain Socket support

Able to listen on multiple interfaces including UNIX sockets.

Small memory footprint

Preloading the applications with --preload-app command line option enables copy-on-write friendly memory management. Also, the minimum memory usage Starwoman requires for the master process is 7MB and children (workers) is less than 3.0MB.

PSGI compatible

Can run any PSGI applications and frameworks

HTTP/1.1 support

Supports chunked requests and responses, keep-alive and pipeline requests.

UNIX only

This server does not support Win32.

PERFORMANCE

Here's a simple benchmark using Hello.psgi.

  -- server: Starwoman (workers=10)
  Requests per second:    6849.16 [#/sec] (mean)
  -- server: Twiggy
  Requests per second:    3911.78 [#/sec] (mean)
  -- server: AnyEvent::HTTPD
  Requests per second:    2738.49 [#/sec] (mean)
  -- server: HTTP::Server::PSGI
  Requests per second:    2218.16 [#/sec] (mean)
  -- server: HTTP::Server::PSGI (workers=10)
  Requests per second:    2792.99 [#/sec] (mean)
  -- server: HTTP::Server::Simple
  Requests per second:    1435.50 [#/sec] (mean)
  -- server: Corona
  Requests per second:    2332.00 [#/sec] (mean)
  -- server: POE
  Requests per second:    503.59 [#/sec] (mean)

This benchmark was processed with ab -c 10 -t 1 -k on MacBook Pro 13" late 2009 model on Mac OS X 10.6.2 with perl 5.10.0. YMMV.

NOTES

Because Starwoman runs as a preforking model, it is not recommended to serve the requests directly from the internet, especially when slow requesting clients are taken into consideration. It is suggested to put Starwoman workers behind the frontend servers such as nginx, and use HTTP proxy with TCP or UNIX sockets.

This is a fork of Starman for one particular reason: to stop the endless forking of immediately dying children when app.psgi can't be loaded, which flooded the log file and pegged the CPU. Starman hasn't been maintained, hence the fork. Do not assume I will be any better about maintaining this, considering how much attention I give to projects I wrote myself.

AUTHOR

Ashley Willis <awillis@synacor.com>

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net> wrote Starman, which this module is a fork of with minimal modifications.

Andy Grundman wrote Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork, which this module is heavily based on.

Kazuho Oku wrote Net::Server::SS::PreFork that makes it easy to add Server::Starter support to this software.

COPYRIGHT

Ashley Willis, 2019 Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, 2010-

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

Plack Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork Net::Server::PreFork