Re: [Chicken-users] http-server dies unexpectedly?

[Graham Fawcett]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:05:14 +0200, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:42:58 -0500, Graham Fawcett
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I ran the example "hello, world" http-server from the http egg page,
> > and hit it with apachebench just to get a sense of general
> > performance. When running 'ab' with concurrent connections, and a
> > moderate number of requests, e.g.
> >
> >     ab -c 2 -n 100 http://localhost:4242/
> >
> > the http-server fulfills all of the requests with no errors
> > (ChickenRulesOK!). However, when 'ab' terminates, the server process
> > exits, with no error message.  This happened whether I ran the example
> > as a script (csi -script) or compiled via csc, and whether or not
> > debugging output was requested when starting the server.
> 
> The http egg doesn't handle SIGPIPE (spiffy, the web-server does), so just
> add:
> 
> (use posix)
> (set-signal-handler! signal/pipe #f)
> 
> to your code.
> 
> (This should be documented in the http egg, sorry)

Brilliant, that did the trick. Thanks, Felix; I'll take a look at
spiffy as well.

Best, 
-- Graham