lighty's life

After poking I was poked several times to publish a benchmark between lighttpd and Apache2 I added it to the benchmark page.

More impressive than scientific benchmarks are real-world tests like the oen Jason has done: Taking a full frontal slashdot lighttpdly at textdrive. :)

Only 7 days are left for the lighttpd logo contest. In the last week 3 artists have sent in there submissions with one of them being so creative to submit 8 logos at once.

Please take a look at the new submissions and leave your comment under this article.

The logo contest is very successfull. In the second week we got several new candidates which have their own idea of the word light. From the beginning I thought about the word light in all fashions:

• as in lightbulb
• as in light as a feather
• as in diet products
• as in lighting

The authors of the logos have added more ideas to this base and it looks truly amazing what they have created and I really love to see this. I still encourage you to add more ideas to this base, perhaps a authors graps it and draws something nice.

I spent some hours in the airport of Hong-Kong and wanted to get the 1.3.x branch running on cygwin in combination with PHP via FastCGI. On the road I most often work under Windows on my Laptop and being able to really test it under every platform, even cygwin is a nice to have.

It was already spawned automaticly by the internal spawner after I had compiled PHP in cygwin myself with FastCGI support. The only thing missing was a working FastCGI handler. Debugging in cygwin is a lot harder than doing the same under Linux as the strace is tracing the emulated environment and not the native system calls:

$ strace—mask=syscall .libs/lighttpd.exe -D -f ./lighttpd.conf

Adding a bunch of log_error_write() statements in the mod_fastcgi.c code somewhen revealed what is really going on. I still wonder why it ever worked at all :)

changeset 343 is the final result of this debug session and will be part of 1.3.14 moving the ‘please send me FDEVENT_IN’ before we return with WAIT_FOR_EVENT. This also removes the ‘I got FDEVENT_OUT and don’t know way’ messages than sometimes appeared.

A few days ago I’ve sent out a message about the logo contest and I already received a nice set of proposals. The idea was to collect some ideas for a while and see how they develop. My current favorites are the one by Tobin Jones and Matt Wood as they cover the idea of the word light the best.