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 # A Web Server Called *Ebb*
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-Ebb aims to be a very small and fast web server specifically for hosting 
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+Ebb aims to be a small and fast web server specifically for hosting 
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 web frameworks like Rails, Merb, and in the future Django.
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 It is not meant to be a full featured web server like Lighttpd, Apache, or
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-Nginx. Rather it should be used in multiplicity behind a load balancer and
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-a front-end server. It is not meant to serve static files in production.
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+Nginx. Rather it should be used in multiplicity behind a 
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+[load balancer](http://brainspl.at/articles/2007/11/09/a-fair-proxy-balancer-for-nginx-and-mongrel) 
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+and a front-end server. It is not meant to serve static files in production.
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 ## Design
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 ## Download
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-The Ruby binding is available as a Ruby Gem. It can be install simply by 
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-executing
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+The Ruby binding is available as a Ruby Gem. It can be install by executing
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   `gem install ebb`
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 Ebb depends on having glib2 headers and libraries installed. (Easily available
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-on any UNIX system.)
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+on any UNIX system.) A manual downloads can be found at
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+the [RubyForge project page](http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=5640).
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 ## Why?
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 thousands of requests a second, an attempt should be made to be as efficient
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 as possible in processing connections.
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+Following are some benchmarks. Please take these measurements with a grain
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+of salt. Benchmarks like these are notorious for presenting an inaccurate
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+or highly slanted view of how software performs. 
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+The code for these can be found in the `benchmark` directory.
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+
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 ![Response Size](http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20080227/response_size.png)
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 This shows how the web servers perform with respect to throughput (using a 
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 ![Uploads](http://s3.amazonaws.com/four.livejournal/20080227/post_size.png)
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-Ebb processes upload before handing it over to the web application. This 
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+Ebb processes uploads before handing it over to the web application. This 
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 allows Ebb to continue to process other clients while the upload is in 
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-progress. The large difference here is merely because Ebb's internal request 
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-buffer is set at 40 kilobytes before it writes to file. (Improvement can 
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-be made here.)
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+progress. The cliff at 40k here is because Ebb's internal request
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+buffer is set at 40 kilobytes before it writes to file.
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 ## Contributions

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   end
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   def test_large_post
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-    response = post("/test_post_length", 'C'*1024*50)
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-    assert_equal 200, response.code.to_i, response.body
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+    [50,60,100].each do |i|
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+      response = post("/test_post_length", 'C'*1024*i)
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+      assert_equal 200, response.code.to_i, response.body
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+    end
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   end
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   def test_env

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 }
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 h1, h2, h3, h4 { 
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-  color: #CBCFB6;
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+  color: #7DA478;
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   padding: 0;
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   margin: 1em 0;
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 }
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 #content { 
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   margin: 1em auto ;
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-  max-width: 30em;
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+  max-width: 40em;
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 }
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 ol, ul { padding-left: 0; }