[hunchentoot-devel] Anyone running Hunchentoot on an OpenBSD server?

[Jeff Cunningham]

Thank you, Hans. I will take a look at that. I wouldn't have thought of 
that problem.
Fortunately, it will be a low-volume site.

--Jeff

Hans Hübner wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 04:33, Jeff Cunningham
> <j.k.cunningham at comcast.net> wrote:
>   
>> I'm looking into setting up a Hunchentoot server on an OpenBSD system
>> and right away noticed problems in the notes about building threads into
>> SBCL (it sounds experimental). Lack of thread support would be a
>> problem, wouldn't it? Has anyone run Hunchentoot on OpenBSD before? If
>> so, were you able to use SBCL? If not, what did you use?
>>     
>
> I have not run Lisp on OpenBSD, but here is some advice anyway:
> Running Hunchentoot in a single threaded Lisp is not generally a
> problem for low-volume sites.  I would decouple the Lisp server from
> clients using a HTTP proxy so that slow clients can't easily stall the
> server.
>
> I generally use squid (http://www.squid-cache.org/) for that purpose,
> but there are a host of other options.  When evaluating http proxies
> last time, I have not been able to find one that supports single
> threaded backend servers well:  In such a configuration, it would
> generally be preferable to queue requests in the front end process and
> perform precise scheduling of backend requests.  None of the http
> proxies I looked at (squid, nginix, varnish) supported that.at the
> time.
>
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