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diff --git a/web/server/static/README.md b/web/server/static/README.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c4e5c4c1 --- /dev/null +++ b/web/server/static/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +<!-- +title: "`static-threaded` web server" +description: "The Netdata Agent's static-threaded web server spawns a fixed number of threads that listen to web requests and uses non-blocking I/O." +custom_edit_url: https://github.com/netdata/netdata/edit/master/web/server/static/README.md +sidebar_label: "`static-threaded` web server" +learn_status: "Published" +learn_topic_type: "Tasks" +learn_rel_path: "Developers/Web" +--> + +# `static-threaded` web server + +The `static-threaded` web server spawns a fixed number of threads. +All the threads are concurrently listening for web requests on the same sockets. +The kernel distributes the incoming requests to them. + +Each thread uses non-blocking I/O so it can serve any number of web requests in parallel. + +This web server respects the `keep-alive` HTTP header to serve multiple HTTP requests via the same connection. + + |