tinyhttpd is a minimum functional HTTP server written in the C programming language.
For now tinyhttpd only support Linux 2.6 or later.
Please make sure you have cmake installed.
mkdir build && cd build
cmake .. && make
cd .. && ./build/tinyhttpd &By default the server runs on port 8008, if you want to assign other port for the server, run it as ./build/tinyhttpd port &.
In order to avoid showing too much stdout/stderr message, you can run ./build/tinyhttpd [port] 2>&1 >tinyhttpd.log & to redirect both stdout and stderr to a log file.
- epoll
- non-blocking I/O
- threadpool
I have made a small performance test with Zaver, a fast and efficient HTTP server(I have learned a lot from it). In a way it was not a fair comparasion, for the number of total transferred bytes was not equal and the processing logic in tinyhttpd is relatively simple.
ab -n 10000 -c 500 http://127.0.0.1:8008/doc/index.htmlcpu: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5630 @ 2.13GHz, 8 cores.
mem: 32GB.Zaver
Server Software: Zaver
Server Hostname: 0.0.0.0
Server Port: 3000
Document Path: /html/index.html
Document Length: 170 bytes
Concurrency Level: 500
Time taken for tests: 10.172 seconds
Complete requests: 10000
Failed requests: 0
Non-2xx responses: 10000
Total transferred: 2760000 bytes
HTML transferred: 1700000 bytes
Requests per second: 983.10 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 508.594 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 1.017 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 264.98 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 3 7.9 0 47
Processing: 499 502 6.2 501 547
Waiting: 0 2 3.9 1 30
Total: 499 505 12.6 501 564
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 501
66% 502
75% 502
80% 502
90% 507
95% 547
98% 558
99% 562
100% 564 (longest request)
tinyhttpd
Server Software:
Server Hostname: 127.0.1.1
Server Port: 8008
Document Path: /doc/index.html
Document Length: 173 bytes
Concurrency Level: 500
Time taken for tests: 3.695 seconds
Complete requests: 10000
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 2170000 bytes
HTML transferred: 1730000 bytes
Requests per second: 2706.40 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 184.747 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.369 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 573.52 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 88 381.2 0 3005
Processing: 10 55 33.2 44 456
Waiting: 10 54 33.2 44 456
Total: 41 143 385.8 45 3259
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 45
66% 50
75% 55
80% 61
90% 151
95% 1049
98% 1061
99% 3053
100% 3259 (longest request)