Provided by: starman_0.4008-1_all 
NAME
Starman - High-performance preforking PSGI/Plack web server
SYNOPSIS
# Run app.psgi with the default settings
> starman
# run with Server::Starter
> start_server --port 127.0.0.1:80 -- starman --workers 32 myapp.psgi
# UNIX domain sockets
> starman --listen /tmp/starman.sock
Read more options and configurations by running `perldoc starman` (lower-case s).
DESCRIPTION
Starman is a PSGI perl web server that has unique features such as:
High Performance
Uses the fast XS/C HTTP header parser
Preforking
Spawns workers preforked like most high performance UNIX servers do. Starman also reaps dead children
and automatically restarts the worker pool.
Signals
Supports "HUP" for graceful worker restarts, and "TTIN"/"TTOU" to dynamically increase or decrease
the number of worker processes, as well as "QUIT" to gracefully shutdown the worker processes.
Superdaemon aware
Supports Server::Starter for hot deploy and graceful restarts.
Multiple interfaces and UNIX Domain Socket support
Able to listen on multiple interfaces including UNIX sockets.
Small memory footprint
Preloading the applications with "--preload-app" command line option enables copy-on-write friendly
memory management. Also, the minimum memory usage Starman requires for the master process is 7MB and
children (workers) is less than 3.0MB.
PSGI compatible
Can run any PSGI applications and frameworks
HTTP/1.1 support
Supports chunked requests and responses, keep-alive and pipeline requests.
UNIX only
This server does not support Win32.
PERFORMANCE
Here's a simple benchmark using "Hello.psgi".
-- server: Starman (workers=10)
Requests per second: 6849.16 [#/sec] (mean)
-- server: Twiggy
Requests per second: 3911.78 [#/sec] (mean)
-- server: AnyEvent::HTTPD
Requests per second: 2738.49 [#/sec] (mean)
-- server: HTTP::Server::PSGI
Requests per second: 2218.16 [#/sec] (mean)
-- server: HTTP::Server::PSGI (workers=10)
Requests per second: 2792.99 [#/sec] (mean)
-- server: HTTP::Server::Simple
Requests per second: 1435.50 [#/sec] (mean)
-- server: Corona
Requests per second: 2332.00 [#/sec] (mean)
-- server: POE
Requests per second: 503.59 [#/sec] (mean)
This benchmark was processed with "ab -c 10 -t 1 -k" on MacBook Pro 13" late 2009 model on Mac OS X
10.6.2 with perl 5.10.0. YMMV.
NAMING
Starman?
The name Starman is taken from the song (Star na Otoko) by the Japanese rock band Unicorn (yes,
Unicorn!). It's also known as a song by David Bowie, a power-up from Super Mario Brothers and a character
from Earthbound, all of which I love.
Why the cute name instead of more descriptive namespace? Are you on drugs?
I'm sick of naming Perl software like HTTP::Server::PSGI::How::Its::Written::With::What::Module and
people call it HSPHIWWWM on IRC. It's hard to say on speeches and newbies would ask questions what they
stand for every day. That's crazy.
This module actually includes the longer alias and an empty subclass
HTTP::Server::PSGI::Net::Server::PreFork for those who like to type more ::'s. It would actually help you
find this software by searching for PSGI Server Prefork on CPAN, which i believe is a good thing.
Yes, maybe I'm on drugs. We'll see.
AUTHOR
Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net> Andy Grundman wrote Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork, which this module is heavily based on. Kazuho Oku wrote Net::Server::SS::PreFork that makes it easy to add Server::Starter support to this software.
LICENSE
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
itself.
SEE ALSO
Plack Catalyst::Engine::HTTP::Prefork Net::Server::PreFork