Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file

Re:Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file by rkeene2 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @02:42PM (#27439165)

You might want to try filed !

This was for serving MPEG4-TS files with, IIRC, H.264 video and MPEG-III audio streams -- nothing fancy -- from a server running a container living on a disk attached via USB/1.1.

While USB/1.1 has enough bandwidth to stream the video, the other HTTP servers were too slow with Range requests, because they would do things like wait for logs to complete and open the file to serve (which is synchronous and requires walking the slow disk tree).

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Re:Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file by e12e on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @04:16PM (#27440191)

> a server running a container living on a disk attached via USB/1.1.

Ah, ok. That makes sense. USB 1.1 can certainly challenge cache layers and software assumptions.

I do wonder how far apache2 might have been pushed, dropping logs and adjusting proxy/cache settings.

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Re:Althttpd: Simple webserver in a single C file by rkeene2 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @05:42PM (#27441280)

I do not know, though I do know that just disabling logging wasn't sufficient.

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