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In development for almost 3 years, Lwan was until now a personal research effort that focused mostly on building a solid infrastructure for a lightweight and speedy web server. | It is an open source high-performance network framework using an event-driven, asynchronous, non-blocking I/O model which makes it scalable and efficient. |
Low memory footprint (~500KiB for 10k idle connections);Minimal memory allocations & copies;Minimal system calls;Hand-crafted HTTP request parser;Static file serving uses the most efficient way according to file size;No copies between kernel and userland for files larger than 16KiB;Smaller files are sent using vectored I/O;Header overhead is considered before considering deflate compression;Mostly wait-free multi-threaded design;One thread accepts connections, one I/O thread per logical CPU handles them;Hand-crafted coroutines makes asynchronous I/O a breeze in C;Linux only, as it relies on epoll();Purpose-built I/O loop;Efficient loading cache used for;Directory listing;File information (size, last modified date, MIME type, etc);Compressed files;Diminute codebase with roughly 7200 lines of C code | Mobile API Server;
Internet Of Things;
Micro Services;
Web API Or Web Application;
Gaming Servers;
Live Chat Systems |
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GitHub Stars 6.0K | GitHub Stars 18.8K |
GitHub Forks 551 | GitHub Forks 3.2K |
Stacks 1 | Stacks 57 |
Followers 6 | Followers 134 |
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