[hunchentoot-devel] Hunchentoot and threads

[Andy Chambers]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Hans Hübner <hans at huebner.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 14:02, Andy Chambers
> <achambers.home at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Hans Hübner <hans at huebner.org> wrote:
>>
>>> As for future work on Hunchentoot:  We do have the new connection
>>> manager class in place which is meant to support the implementation of
>>> thread pools.  Thread pools would help putting limits on the number of
>>> threads created, helping with getting through load peaks.  I do not
>>> personally need such a connection manager, but rather want to spend
>>> some time on making Hunchentoot be able to use single threaded I/O
>>> multiplexing using select/kpoll/whatever.
>>
>> Is there an existing webserver which uses this technique?  I'm interested
>> in seeing the details.
>
> IOLIB (http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib/) has an event based HTTP
> server and is written in Common Lisp.  Twisted
> (http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/) is an event based communications
> framework written in Python which includes a HTTP server.  xlightweb
> (http://xlightweb.sourceforge.net/) is a HTTP client/server library
> written in an event oriented fashion in Java, based on the xsocket
> library.

Cool.  I also found this discussion on the subject which provided yet more
pointers.

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.htm

--
Andy