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

[Bill St. Clair]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jeff Cunningham
<j.k.cunningham at comcast.net> wrote:
> Hans Hübner wrote:
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> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 04:33, Jeff Cunningham
> <j.k.cunningham at comcast.net> wrote:
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> For what it's worth, I was able to build Hunchentoot single-threaded on
> OpenBSD, but found it nearly impossible to work with that way. I couldn't
> find a way to save an executable core, for example. I couldn't get swank to
> work, couldn't talk to a running instance so it ends up pretty much
> brain-dead. Once I'd launch the server I'd lose the repl ane the only way to
> make changes was to kill the process externally, edit and restart Lisp.
> There may be ways to solve all these problems, but I'm thinking I'd be
> better off spending my time (and money) finding a Linux server instead.

Or you could try Clozure Common Lisp (CCL) on OpenBSD. CCL and
multi-threaded Hunchentoot are known to work on FreeBSD, but none of
us at Clozure has an OpenBSD machine to try it on.

-Bill