khttpd newbie problem

khttpd newbie problem

[Dan Kegel]

I'm having an oops with khttpd on an embedded 2.4.17 ppc405
system, so I thought I'd try it out on my pc.  But I can't
get khttpd to serve any requests.

I built khttpd into the kernel with vanilla 2.4.17smp on 
Intel on Red Hat 7.2, then turned it on as follows:

echo /home/dank/stress > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/documentroot
echo 80 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/serverport
echo 8000 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/maxconnect
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/start

I also made sure there was an index.html in /home/dank/stress,
turned off the firewall, did /etc/init.c/ipchains restart,
and made sure netstat reported port 80 as listening.

But... when I try to fetch http://localhost/index.html,
it just sits there.  Likewise, when I telnet to port 80,
even from a different machine, it just accepts bytes forever; 
no matter what I type, it just echoes the bytes right back at me.

If I do
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/stop
port 80 stops listening, and any open connections are closed.

I must be doing something silly... surely khttpd works?
Is it because I'm running SMP, perhaps?
- Dan

Re: khttpd newbie problem

[Anton Blanchard]

Hi Dan,

> I'm having an oops with khttpd on an embedded 2.4.17 ppc405
> system, so I thought I'd try it out on my pc.  But I can't
> get khttpd to serve any requests.

Any reason for not using tux? Its been tested heavily on ppc64,
the same patches should work on ppc32.

Anton

Re: khttpd newbie problem

[Dan Kegel]

Anton Blanchard wrote:
> > I'm having an oops with khttpd on an embedded 2.4.17 ppc405
> > system, so I thought I'd try it out on my pc.  But I can't
> > get khttpd to serve any requests.
> 
> Any reason for not using tux? Its been tested heavily on ppc64,
> the same patches should work on ppc32.

That's an excellent suggestion.  It certainly seems that khttpd
is no longer production quality (if it ever was), and tux is.

I'm on an embedded system, so if tux is much larger, I'll
be annoyed; but the system does have 64 MB, so it's not *that*
cramped.  And working is much better than crashing.
- Dan

Re: khttpd newbie problem

[Anton Blanchard]

 
> That's an excellent suggestion.  It certainly seems that khttpd
> is no longer production quality (if it ever was), and tux is.
> 
> I'm on an embedded system, so if tux is much larger, I'll
> be annoyed; but the system does have 64 MB, so it's not *that*
> cramped.  And working is much better than crashing.

Here are two sets of patches, one for the tux userspace utilities
and one for the kernel - apply it after the tux patch. 

I'll push the relevant changes to Ingo and Paulus.

Anton


kernel patch:


diff -ru --exclude-from=/home/anton/ppc64/exclude linux-2.4_tux/arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S linux-2.4_tux_work/arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S
--- linux-2.4_tux/arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S	Sun May  5 18:38:37 2002
+++ linux-2.4_tux_work/arch/ppc/kernel/misc.S	Sun May  5 18:02:20 2002
@@ -1162,6 +1162,30 @@
 	.long sys_mincore
 	.long sys_gettid
 	.long sys_tkill
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_setxattr */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_lsetxattr */    /* 210 */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_fsetxattr */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_getxattr */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_lgetxattr */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_fgetxattr */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_listxattr */    /* 215 */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_llistxattr */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_flistxattr */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_removexattr */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_lremovexattr */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_fremovexattr */  /* 220 */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_futex */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_sched_setaffinity */
+	.long sys_ni_syscall	/* sys_sched_getaffinity */
+#ifdef CONFIG_TUX
+	.long __sys_tux
+#else
+# ifdef CONFIG_TUX_MODULE
+	.long sys_tux
+# else
+	.long sys_ni_syscall
+# endif
+#endif
 	.rept NR_syscalls-(.-sys_call_table)/4
 		.long sys_ni_syscall
 	.endr
diff -ru --exclude-from=/home/anton/ppc64/exclude linux-2.4_tux/include/asm-ppc/fcntl.h linux-2.4_tux_work/include/asm-ppc/fcntl.h
--- linux-2.4_tux/include/asm-ppc/fcntl.h	Sun May  5 18:38:55 2002
+++ linux-2.4_tux_work/include/asm-ppc/fcntl.h	Sun May  5 18:02:22 2002
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 #define O_NOFOLLOW      0100000	/* don't follow links */
 #define O_LARGEFILE     0200000
 #define O_DIRECT	0400000	/* direct disk access hint */
+#define O_ATOMICLOOKUP 01000000	/* do atomic file lookup */
 
 #define F_DUPFD		0	/* dup */
 #define F_GETFD		1	/* get close_on_exec */
diff -ru --exclude-from=/home/anton/ppc64/exclude linux-2.4_tux/include/asm-ppc/unistd.h linux-2.4_tux_work/include/asm-ppc/unistd.h
--- linux-2.4_tux/include/asm-ppc/unistd.h	Sun May  5 18:38:55 2002
+++ linux-2.4_tux_work/include/asm-ppc/unistd.h	Sun May  5 18:02:21 2002
@@ -216,6 +216,22 @@
 #define __NR_mincore		206
 #define __NR_gettid		207
 #define __NR_tkill		208
+#define __NR_setxattr		209
+#define __NR_lsetxattr		210
+#define __NR_fsetxattr		211
+#define __NR_getxattr		212
+#define __NR_lgetxattr		213
+#define __NR_fgetxattr		214
+#define __NR_listxattr		215
+#define __NR_llistxattr		216
+#define __NR_flistxattr		217
+#define __NR_removexattr	218
+#define __NR_lremovexattr	219
+#define __NR_fremovexattr	220
+#define __NR_futex		221
+#define __NR_sched_setaffinity  222
+#define __NR_sched_getaffinity  223
+#define __NR_tux		224
 
 #define __NR(n)	#n
 
diff -ru --exclude-from=/home/anton/ppc64/exclude linux-2.4_tux/net/tux/accept.c linux-2.4_tux_work/net/tux/accept.c
--- linux-2.4_tux/net/tux/accept.c	Sun May  5 17:56:44 2002
+++ linux-2.4_tux_work/net/tux/accept.c	Sun May  5 18:02:21 2002
@@ -64,7 +64,13 @@
 #define IP(n) ((unsigned char *)&addr)[n]
 	err = sock->ops->bind(sock, (struct sockaddr*)&sin, sizeof(sin));
 	if (err < 0) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "TUX: error %d binding socket. This means that probably some other process is (or was a short time ago) using addr %s://%d.%d.%d.%d:%d.\n", err, proto->name, IP(3), IP(2), IP(1), IP(0), port);
+		printk(KERN_ERR "TUX: error %d binding socket. This means that probably some other process is (or was a short time ago) using addr %s://%d.%d.%d.%d:%d.\n", err, proto->name,
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
+			IP(0), IP(1), IP(2), IP(3), 
+#else
+			IP(3), IP(2), IP(1), IP(0), 
+#endif
+			port);
 		goto err;
 	}
 
@@ -87,7 +93,13 @@
 	}
 
 	printk(KERN_NOTICE "TUX: thread %d listens on %s://%d.%d.%d.%d:%d.\n",
-		nr, proto->name, IP(3), IP(2), IP(1), IP(0), port);
+		nr, proto->name, 
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
+		IP(0), IP(1), IP(2), IP(3), 
+#else
+		IP(3), IP(2), IP(1), IP(0), 
+#endif
+		port);
 	return sock;
 
 err:
diff -ru --exclude-from=/home/anton/ppc64/exclude linux-2.4_tux/net/tux/proc.c linux-2.4_tux_work/net/tux/proc.c
--- linux-2.4_tux/net/tux/proc.c	Sun May  5 17:56:44 2002
+++ linux-2.4_tux_work/net/tux/proc.c	Sun May  5 18:02:21 2002
@@ -1005,7 +1005,12 @@
 #define IP(n) ((unsigned char *)&listen->ip)[n]
 
 	return sprintf (page, "%s://%u.%u.%u.%u:%hu\n", listen->proto->name,
-		IP(3), IP(2), IP(1), IP(0), listen->port);
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
+		IP(0), IP(1), IP(2), IP(3), 
+#else
+		IP(3), IP(2), IP(1), IP(0), 
+#endif
+		listen->port);
 }
 
 static int listen_write_proc (struct file *file, const char *buffer,
diff -ru --exclude-from=/home/anton/ppc64/exclude linux-2.4_tux/net/tux/proto_ftp.c linux-2.4_tux_work/net/tux/proto_ftp.c
--- linux-2.4_tux/net/tux/proto_ftp.c	Sun May  5 17:56:44 2002
+++ linux-2.4_tux_work/net/tux/proto_ftp.c	Sun May  5 18:02:21 2002
@@ -602,8 +602,10 @@
 	}
 #if CONFIG_TUX_DEBUG
 	req->bytes_expected = 0;
+#ifndef __powerpc__
 	if (tux_TDprintk)
 		show_stack(NULL);
+#endif
 #endif
 	req->in_file.f_pos = 0;
 	TDprintk("zapping, data sock state: %d (err: %d, urg: %d)\n",


tux userspace patch:


diff -ru tux-2.2.5/tux.c tux-2.2.5_work/tux.c
--- tux-2.2.5/tux.c	Fri Feb  8 04:27:43 2002
+++ tux-2.2.5_work/tux.c	Sun May  5 17:22:52 2002
@@ -33,7 +33,13 @@
 }
 
 #else
+
+#ifdef __powerpc__
+#define __NR_tux 224
+#else
 #define __NR_tux 222
+#endif
+
 _syscall2 (int, tux, unsigned int, action, user_req_t *, req)
 #endif
 
diff -ru tux-2.2.5/tux2w3c.c tux-2.2.5_work/tux2w3c.c
--- tux-2.2.5/tux2w3c.c	Wed Feb 20 21:30:55 2002
+++ tux-2.2.5_work/tux2w3c.c	Sat Apr  6 11:16:04 2002
@@ -35,6 +35,23 @@
 #ifdef __ia64__
 #define O_LARGEFILE    0100000
 #endif
+
+#ifdef __powerpc__
+#define O_LARGEFILE 0200000
+#endif
+
+#ifdef _BIG_ENDIAN
+#define LOG_ID1 0x1111beef
+#define LOG_ID2 0x2222beef
+#define LOG_ID3 0x1112beef
+#define LOG_ID4 0x2223beef
+#else
+#define LOG_ID1 0xefbe1111
+#define LOG_ID2 0xefbe2222
+#define LOG_ID3 0xefbe1211
+#define LOG_ID4 0xefbe2322
+#endif
+
 typedef struct standard_tux_record {
 	__u32 ip_addr;
 	__u32 time;
@@ -147,14 +164,14 @@
 		if (c == EOF)
 			break;
 		id = (id << 8) | c;
-		if ((id != 0xefbe1111) && (id != 0xefbe2222) &&
-				(id != 0xefbe1211) && (id != 0xefbe2322))
+		if ((id != LOG_ID1) && (id != LOG_ID2) &&
+				(id != LOG_ID3) && (id != LOG_ID4))
 			continue;
 		extended_rec = 0;
-		if ((id == 0xefbe2222) || (id == 0xefbe2322))
+		if ((id == LOG_ID2) || (id == LOG_ID4))
 			extended_rec = 1;
 		referer_log = 0;
-		if ((id == 0xefbe2322) || (id == 0xefbe1211))
+		if ((id == LOG_ID4) || (id == LOG_ID3))
 			referer_log = 1;
 		if (!extended_rec) {
 			if (my_read(file, &std_rec, sizeof(std_rec)) != sizeof(std_rec))
diff -ru tux-2.2.5/tuxmodule.h tux-2.2.5_work/tuxmodule.h
--- tux-2.2.5/tuxmodule.h	Wed Jan  9 07:24:53 2002
+++ tux-2.2.5_work/tuxmodule.h	Sat Apr  6 11:12:29 2002
@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@
 	exit(-1);							\
 } while (0)
 
+#ifdef __i386__
+
 #define LOCK_PREFIX "lock ; "
 
 #define barrier() __asm__ __volatile__("": : :"memory")
@@ -117,17 +119,66 @@
 extern __inline__ int test_and_set_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr)
 {
 	int oldbit;
-#if __i386__
+
 	__asm__ __volatile__( LOCK_PREFIX
 		"btsl %2,%1\n\tsbbl %0,%0"
 		:"=r" (oldbit),"=m" (ADDR)
 		:"Ir" (nr));
+	return oldbit;
+}
+
+extern __inline__ void TUXAPI_down (int *sem)
+{
+	while (test_and_set_bit(0, sem))
+		barrier();
+}
+
+extern __inline__ void TUXAPI_up (int *sem)
+{
+	*((volatile int *)sem) = 0;
+}
+
+#elif defined(__powerpc__)
+
+extern __inline__ void TUXAPI_down (int *sem)
+{
+	unsigned int tmp;
+
+	__asm__ __volatile__(
+	"b		2f\n\
+1:	lwzx		%0,0,%1\n\
+	cmpwi		0,%0,0\n\
+	bne+		1b\n\
+2:	lwarx		%0,0,%1\n\
+	cmpwi		0,%0,0\n\
+	bne-		1b\n\
+	stwcx.		%2,0,%1\n\
+	bne-		2b\n\
+	isync"
+	: "=&r"(tmp)
+	: "r"((volatile int *)sem), "r"(1)
+	: "cr0", "memory");
+}
+
+extern __inline__ void TUXAPI_up (int *sem)
+{
+	__asm__ __volatile__("lwsync": : :"memory");
+	*((volatile int *)sem) = 0;
+}
+
 #else
+
+#warning Using generic TUXAPI locks - not SMP safe
+
+extern __inline__ int test_and_set_bit(int nr, volatile void * addr)
+{
+	int oldbit;
 	unsigned long *foo;
+
 	foo = addr;
 	oldbit = (*foo >> nr) & 1;
 	*foo = *foo | (1<<nr);
-#endif
+
 	return oldbit;
 }
 
@@ -141,6 +192,8 @@
 {
 	*((volatile int *)sem) = 0;
 }
+
+#endif
 
 #define TUX_DEBUG 0
 

Re: khttpd newbie problem

[Ken Brownfield]

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 10:55:09PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
| Anton Blanchard wrote:
| > > I'm having an oops with khttpd on an embedded 2.4.17 ppc405
| > > system, so I thought I'd try it out on my pc.  But I can't
| > > get khttpd to serve any requests.
| > 
| > Any reason for not using tux? Its been tested heavily on ppc64,
| > the same patches should work on ppc32.
| 
| That's an excellent suggestion.  It certainly seems that khttpd
| is no longer production quality (if it ever was), and tux is.

khttpd is very much production quality on IA32, and has been since
2.4.0-test1.  TUX2 is not, however, since under load it enters a 99% CPU
busy loop.  You may not have enough load to cause TUX2 to do this, and
TUX1 may not have this problem.

| I'm on an embedded system, so if tux is much larger, I'll
| be annoyed; but the system does have 64 MB, so it's not *that*
| cramped.  And working is much better than crashing.

khttpd is extremely dependent on alignment and data sizes -- the
filename extension handling is deeply unfunny* for example.  khttpd most
likely has a problem with PPC (endian, etc).  Are you applying any other
patches that could conflict?
-- 
Ken.
ken@irridia.com

* phrase plagiarized from ac

| - Dan
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Re: khttpd newbie problem

[Dan Kegel]

Ken Brownfield wrote:
> khttpd is very much production quality on IA32, and has been since
> 2.4.0-test1. 

It oopses readily on start/stop -- see 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102068445316516&w=2
in which DecodeHeader is called with no buffer allocated.
Happened quite frequently during my tests.  Since my patch I
can't get it to oops on x86, but it's still oopsing on ppc405.
So perhaps now it's production quality... but it still needs
a bit too much babying on stop.  (It'd be fairly easy to fix
the unreliable way it senses the stop command.)

> TUX2 is not, however, since under load it enters a 99% CPU
> busy loop.

I checked the tux list and found the post you're taling about:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tux-list&m=101420257421009&w=2
Hmm.  Well, at least it doesn't oops :-)  Thanks for the warning.

> | I'm on an embedded system, so if tux is much larger, I'll
> | be annoyed; but the system does have 64 MB, so it's not *that*
> | cramped.  And working is much better than crashing.
> 
> khttpd is extremely dependent on alignment and data sizes -- the
> filename extension handling is deeply unfunny* for example.  khttpd most
> likely has a problem with PPC (endian, etc).  Are you applying any other
> patches that could conflict?

We're running fairly vanilla linuxppc_2_4_devel.  It worked
quite well with 2.4.2 from Montavista, but developed
stability problems when we moved to 2.4.17 (and now 2.4.19-pre8).

I'm trying to put together a minimal test case that shows the crash.
Here's the script I run that does it reliably:
#!/bin/msh
echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/threads
echo `pwd` > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/documentroot
echo 80 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/serverport
echo 8000 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/maxconnect
while /bin/true; do
    echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/start
    ./foo_load duration=7
    echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/stop
    sleep 1
done

where foo_load is a hacked version of http_load (I think)
which is fetching a single 128KB file over and over.
I tried reproducing this with acme.com's http_load, 
without success so far.

In the 'aw, for what it's worth' category, here are some
of the oopses I've seen on the ppc with 2.4.19-pre8 from the
linuxppc_2_4_devel tree plus the bare minimum patches needed
to run on our board. 

With sleep of 1 second, I usually see the crash in foo_load:

>>???; c00b0c3c <tcp_v4_search_req+48/c8>   <=====
Trace; c0084488 <kfree_skbmem+20/94>
Trace; c00b21a4 <tcp_v4_hnd_req+38/1e0>
Trace; c00b250c <tcp_v4_do_rcv+b8/16c>
Trace; c00b2a6c <tcp_v4_rcv+4ac/778>
Trace; c00973c0 <ip_local_deliver+f0/1ac>
Trace; c0097840 <ip_rcv+3c4/470>
Trace; c0088f48 <net_rx_action+204/334>
Trace; c00199b4 <do_softirq+88/100>
Trace; c00887ec <dev_queue_xmit+248/334>
Trace; c009a168 <ip_output+110/174>
Trace; c009a5c0 <ip_queue_xmit+3f4/56c>
Trace; c00ab298 <tcp_transmit_skb+528/614>
Trace; c00adce4 <tcp_connect+458/518>
Trace; c00b0b28 <tcp_v4_connect+340/40c>
Trace; c00bf2d8 <inet_stream_connect+120/2b8>
Trace; c00818e8 <sys_connect+68/8c>
Trace; c0082378 <sys_socketcall+f0/1e0>
Trace; c00060dc <ret_from_syscall_1+0/b4>

Here a backtrace with sleep=2 seconds, inside khttpd:

>>???; c002ea5c <kmem_cache_alloc+b4/170>   <=====
Trace; 00000300 Before first symbol
Trace; c0083c3c <alloc_skb+110/204>
Trace; c009f00c <tcp_sendmsg+1f8/122c>
Trace; c00befd8 <inet_sendmsg+5c/70>
Trace; c008058c <sock_sendmsg+9c/cc>
Trace; c800e520 <END_OF_CODE+7eedd10/???
Trace; c800dcf4 <END_OF_CODE+7eed4e4/???
Trace; c800d268 <END_OF_CODE+7eeca58/???
Trace; c00088f8 <kernel_thread+2c/38>

A backtrace with sleep=3 seconds, in foo_load:

>>???; c0049448 <poll_freewait+28/70>   <=====
Trace; c0031614 <__free_pages+38/48>
Trace; c004a230 <sys_poll+340/360>
Trace; c00060dc <ret_from_syscall_1+0/b4>

A backtrace with sleep=3 seconds, in khttpd:
>>???; c002ebf8 <kmalloc+e0/1b0>   <=====
Trace; c0bdad18 <END_OF_CODE+aba508/???
Trace; c0083c58 <alloc_skb+12c/204>
Trace; c00ad8fc <tcp_send_ack+2c/11c>
Trace; c00ae638 <tcp_delack_timer+1c4/230>
Trace; c001e52c <timer_bh+2c8/420>
Trace; c0019eb4 <bh_action+3c/84>
Trace; c0019d74 <tasklet_hi_action+a0/e0>
Trace; c00199b4 <do_softirq+88/100>
Trace; c0007c48 <timer_interrupt+244/25c>
Trace; c0006310 <ret_from_intercept+0/8>
Trace; c0034c50 <shmem_getpage+a0/118>
Trace; c0035488 <do_shmem_file_read+94/14c>
Trace; c00355a0 <shmem_file_read+60/98>
Trace; c800dcd8 <END_OF_CODE+7eed4c8/???
Trace; c800d268 <END_OF_CODE+7eeca58/???
Trace; c00088f8 <kernel_thread+2c/38>

Yukky.  Makes me want to go work with user-mode web servers instead.

- Dan

Re: khttpd newbie problem

[Ken Brownfield]

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 10:26:14PM -0700, Dan Kegel wrote:
| Ken Brownfield wrote:
| > khttpd is very much production quality on IA32, and has been since
| > 2.4.0-test1. 
| 
| It oopses readily on start/stop -- see 
| http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=102068445316516&w=2
| in which DecodeHeader is called with no buffer allocated.
| Happened quite frequently during my tests.  Since my patch I
| can't get it to oops on x86, but it's still oopsing on ppc405.
| So perhaps now it's production quality... but it still needs
| a bit too much babying on stop.  (It'd be fairly easy to fix
| the unreliable way it senses the stop command.)

Hmm.  I've had it running *hard* for two years, never seen a single oops
or glitch of any sort, kernels 2.4.0-test1 through 2.4.18.  O(1),
preempt, low-latency all on at various times.  All static images though,
with no pass-through.

| > TUX2 is not, however, since under load it enters a 99% CPU
| > busy loop.
| 
| I checked the tux list and found the post you're taling about:
| http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tux-list&m=101420257421009&w=2
| Hmm.  Well, at least it doesn't oops :-)  Thanks for the warning.

Heh, no prob.  The most recent version might have fixed it, although the
last time I tried TUX2 I got a hard hang... prolly O(1) but I never had
time to narrow it down.

[...]
| where foo_load is a hacked version of http_load (I think)
| which is fetching a single 128KB file over and over.
| I tried reproducing this with acme.com's http_load, 
| without success so far.

Odd, seems identical to my standard traffic, though my images are in the
4-64k range.  What you're seeing seems to be an interaction problem --
something different in the non-mainstream, non-x86 kernel that's
allowing khttpd to hang itself.  No argument that khttpd is frightening.

[...]
| Yukky.  Makes me want to go work with user-mode web servers instead.

Yeah, good luck tracking down X15.  I've wanted to create a
heavily-modified apache MPM, but my time is unfortunately finite...

Apache2 on top of TUX2 would be ideal, but alas neither is quite
prime-time yet.
-- 
Ken.
ken@irridia.com

| 
| - Dan

Re: khttpd newbie problem

[Anton Blanchard]

 
> khttpd is very much production quality on IA32, and has been since
> 2.4.0-test1.  TUX2 is not, however, since under load it enters a 99% CPU
> busy loop.  You may not have enough load to cause TUX2 to do this, and
> TUX1 may not have this problem.

Tux2 has been stable for me on very large specweb runs. Ingo has been
able to fix all the bugs I couldnt - a detailed bug report here would
be helpful.

Anton

Re: khttpd newbie problem

[Dan Kegel]

Ken Brownfield wrote:
> Hmm.  I've had it running *hard* for two years, never seen a single oops
> or glitch of any sort, kernels 2.4.0-test1 through 2.4.18.  O(1),
> preempt, low-latency all on at various times.

Try cycling it up and down in a loop.  That's what triggers the bug
my recent patch fixed. (Actually, just starting it once triggers it,
depending on a race condition between the management thread and the
worker threads.)

> | Yukky.  Makes me want to go work with user-mode web servers instead.
> 
> Yeah, good luck tracking down X15.

I have a copy, actually.  It uses Linux's rtsig scheme.
Can't use it, though, as its license prohibits commercial use.
I am tempted to add rtsig support to thttpd, though.

- Dan

Re: khttpd newbie problem

[Dan Kegel]

arjan@fenrus.demon.nl wrote:
> Dan Kegel wrote:
> > I can't get khttpd to serve any requests.
> >
> > echo /home/dank/stress > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/documentroot
> > echo 80 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/serverport
> > echo 8000 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/maxconnect
> > echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/khttpd/start
> 
> what did you set the client port to ?

That was it.  I finally read /usr/src/net/khttpd/README,
and I should be ok now.  I am such a dork sometimes.

Thanks,
Dan

p.s. also found http://lists.alt.org/pipermail/khttpd-users/
which should be helpful.