From a914fabe71633c695d26386045414c4cfb5581b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ciprian Dorin Craciun Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2019 18:36:55 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] [documentation] Update link syntax --- documentation/readme.rst | 30 +++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/documentation/readme.rst b/documentation/readme.rst index a995ab5..851b8f3 100644 --- a/documentation/readme.rst +++ b/documentation/readme.rst @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ kawipiko -- blazingly fast static HTTP server About ===== -This is a simple static HTTP server written in Go, whose main purpose is to serve (public) static content as efficient as possible. +This is a simple static HTTP server written in Go_, whose main purpose is to serve (public) static content as efficient as possible. As such, it basically supports only ``GET`` requests and does not provide features like dynamic content, authentication, reverse proxying, etc. However it does provide something unique, that no other HTTP server offers: the static content is served from a CDB_ database with almost zero latency. @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ However it does provide something unique, that no other HTTP server offers: the CDB_ databases are binary files that provide efficient read-only key-value lookup tables, initially used in some DNS and SMTP servers, mainly for their low overhead lookup operations, zero locking in multi-threaded / multi-process scenarios, and "atomic" multi-record updates. This also makes them suitable for low-latency static content serving over HTTP, which this project provides. -For a complete list of features please consult the `features section <#features>`_. -Unfortunately, there are also some tradeoffs as described in the `limitations section <#limitations>`_ (although none are critical). +For a complete list of features please consult the `features section <#features>`__. +Unfortunately, there are also some tradeoffs as described in the `limitations section <#limitations>`__ (although none are critical). @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ Download binaries .. warning :: No binaries are currently available for download! - Please consult the `build from sources section <#build-from-sources>`_ for now. + Please consult the `build from sources section <#build-from-sources>`__ for now. @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ The following is a list of the most important features that are currently missin Limitations ----------- -As stated in the `about section <#about>`_, nothing comes for free, and in order to provide all these features, some corners had to be cut: +As stated in the `about section <#about>`__, nothing comes for free, and in order to provide all these features, some corners had to be cut: * (TODO) currently if the CDB database file changes, the server needs to be restarted in order to pickup the changed files; @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ Bottom line (**even on my 6 years old laptop**): * **under extreme conditions (2048 concurrent connections), you get arround 74k requests / second, at about 500ms latency for 99% of the requests (meanwhile the average is 50ms);** * (the timeout errors are due to the fact that ``wrk`` is configured to timeout after only 1 second of waiting;) * (the read errors are due to the fact that the server closes a keep-alive connection after serving 256k requests;) -* **the raw performance is comparable with NGinx** (only 20% few requests / second for this "synthetic" benchmark); however for a "real" scenario (i.e. thousand of small files accessed in a random pattern) I think they are on-par; (not to mention how simple it is to configure and deploy ``kawipiko`` as compared to NGinx;) +* **the raw performance is comparable with NGinx_** (only 20% few requests / second for this "synthetic" benchmark); however for a "real" scenario (i.e. thousand of small files accessed in a random pattern) I think they are on-par; (not to mention how simple it is to configure and deploy ``kawipiko`` as compared to NGinx;) @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ Results notes * the benchmark was run over loopback networking (i.e. ``127.0.0.1``); * the served file contains the content ``Hello World!``; * the protocol was HTTP (i.e. no TLS), with keep-alive; -* see the `methodology section <#methodology>`_ for details; +* see the `methodology section <#methodology>`__ for details; @@ -515,13 +515,13 @@ Comparisons with NGinx 2805639 requests in 30.09s, 703.70MB read Socket errors: connect 0, read 25, write 0, timeout 66 -* (the NGinx configuration file can be found in the `examples folder <./examples>`_; the configuration was obtained after many experiments to squeeze out of NGinx as much performance as possible, given the targeted use-case, namely many small static files;) +* (the NGinx configuration file can be found in the `examples folder <./examples>`__; the configuration was obtained after many experiments to squeeze out of NGinx as much performance as possible, given the targeted use-case, namely many small static files;) Comparisons with others ....................... -* `darkhttpd`_ 512 connections / 1 server process / 4 wrk threads: :: +* darkhttpd_ 512 connections / 1 server process / 4 wrk threads: :: Requests/sec: 38191.65 Transfer/sec: 8.74MB @@ -545,8 +545,8 @@ Methodology ----------- -* get the binaries (either `download <#download-binaries>`_ or `build <#build-from-sources>`_ them); -* get the ``hello-world.cdb`` (from the `examples <./examples>`_ folder inside the repository); +* get the binaries (either `download <#download-binaries>`__ or `build <#build-from-sources>`__ them); +* get the ``hello-world.cdb`` (from the `examples <./examples>`__ folder inside the repository); Single process / single threaded @@ -666,9 +666,9 @@ Authors ======= Ciprian Dorin Craciun - * `ciprian@volution.ro `_ or `ciprian.craciun@gmail.com `_ - * ``_ - * ``_ + * `ciprian@volution.ro `__ or `ciprian.craciun@gmail.com `__ + * ``__ + * ``__ @@ -697,7 +697,7 @@ If you **change** the code within this repository **and use** it for **non-perso Notice -- long version ---------------------- -For details about the copyright and licensing, please consult the `notice <./documentation/licensing/notice.txt>`_ file in the `documentation/licensing <./documentation/licensing>`_ folder. +For details about the copyright and licensing, please consult the `notice <./documentation/licensing/notice.txt>`__ file in the `documentation/licensing <./documentation/licensing>`__ folder. 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