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NAME
Starman - High-performance preforking PSGI web server
SYNOPSIS
# Run app.psgi with the default settings > starman # run with Server::Starter > start_server --port 127.0.0.1:80 -- starman --max-servers 32 myapp.psgi # UNIX domain sockets > starman --listen /tmp/starman.sock
DESCRIPTION
Starman is a PSGI perl web server that has unique features such as:
- High Performance
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Uses the fast XS/C HTTP header parser
- Preforking
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Spawns workers preforked like most high performance UNIX servers do. Starman also reaps dead children and automatically restarts the worker pool.
- Signals
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Supports
HUP
for graceful restarts, andTTIN
/TTOU
to dynamically increase or decrease the number of worker processes. - Superdaemon aware
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Supports Server::Starter for hot deploy and graceful restarts.
- Multiple interfaces and UNIX Domain Socket support
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Able to listen on multiple intefaces including UNIX sockets.
- Small memory footprint
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Preloading the applications enables copy-on-write friendly memory management. Also, the minimum memory usage Starman requires for the master process is 7MB and children (workers) is less than 3.0MB.
- PSGI compatible
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Can run any PSGI applications and frameworks
- HTTP/1.1 support
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Supports chunked requests and responses, keep-alive and pipeline requests.
PERFORMANCE
Here's a simple benchmark using
Hello.psgi
.-- server: Starman Requests per second: 6413.87 [#/sec] (mean) -- server: AnyEvent Requests per second: 3911.78 [#/sec] (mean) -- server: AnyEvent::HTTPD Requests per second: 2738.49 [#/sec] (mean) -- server: Standalone Requests per second: 1045.66 [#/sec] (mean) -- server: Standalone (prefork) Requests per second: 2792.99 [#/sec] (mean) -- server: HTTP::Server::Simple Requests per second: 1435.50 [#/sec] (mean) -- server: Coro 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.NAMING
Starman?
The name Starman is taken from the song (Star na Otoko) by the Japanese rock band Unicorn. It's also a power-up from Super Mario Brothers and a character from the video game Earthbound.
Why the cute name instead of more descriptive namespace? Are you on drugs?
I'm sick of naming Perl software like HTTP::Server::PSGI::How::Its::Written::With::What::Module and people call it HSSPHIWWWM on IRC. It's hard to say on speeches and newbies would ask questions what they stand for every day. That's crazy.
This module actually includes the longer alias and an empty subclass HTTP::Server::PSGI::Net::Server::PreFork for those who like to type more ::'s. It would actually help you find this software by searching for PSGI Server Prefork on CPAN, which i believe is a good thing.
Yes, maybe I'm on drugs. We'll see.
AUTHOR
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>
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.
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
SEE ALSO
Module Install Instructions
To install Starman, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm Starman
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Starman
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.