Ranch is a socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.
Ranch aims to provide everything you need to accept TCP connections with a small code base and low latency while being easy to use directly as an application or to embed into your own.
Ranch provides a modular design, letting you choose which transport and protocol are going to be used for a particular listener. Listeners accept and manage connections on one port, and include facilities to limit the number of concurrent connections. Connections are sorted into pools, each pool having a different configurable limit.
Ranch also allows you to upgrade the acceptor pool without having to close any of the currently opened sockets.
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While still online, run
make docs -
User guide available in
doc/in PDF and HTML formats -
Function reference man pages available in
doc/man3/anddoc/man7/ -
Run
make install-docsto install man pages on your system -
Full documentation in Asciidoc available in
doc/src/ -
Examples available in
examples/