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Chihaya is a high-performance [BitTorrent tracker](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_tracker)
written in the Go programming language. It is still heavily under development and the current `master` branch
should not be used in production. Planned features include:
should not be used in production.
Planned features include:
- Light resource consumption
- Fast request processing, sparing the network from exorbitant connection counts
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- Generic storage interfaces that are easily adapted to work with any existing web application
- Scaling properties that directly correlate with those of the chosen data stores
## Technical Details
### Technical Details
See [the wiki](https://github.com/pushrax/chihaya/wiki) for a discussion of the design behind Chihaya.
## Installing
## Using Chihaya
### Installing
Make sure you have your $GOROOT and $GOPATH set up correctly and have your $GOBIN on your $PATH.
Make sure you have your `$GOROOT` and `$GOPATH` set up correctly, and have your `$GOBIN` in your `$PATH`.
```sh
$ go get github.com/pushrax/chihaya
```
## Testing
### Configuring
Configuration is done in a JSON formatted file specified with the `-config`
flag. An example configuration file can be found
[here](https://github.com/pushrax/chihaya/blob/master/config/example.json).
### Running the tests
```sh
$ export TESTCONFIGPATH=$GOPATH/src/chihaya/config/example.json
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$ go test -v ./...
```
## Configuring
Configuration is done in a JSON formatted file specified with the `-config`
flag. An example configuration file can be found
[here](https://github.com/pushrax/chihaya/blob/master/config/example.json).
## Default drivers
Chihaya is designed to remain agnostic about the choice of data store for an
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Cache:
* [redis](http://redis.io)
* Memory
* [redis](http://redis.io) — allows for multiple tracker instances to run at the same time for the same swarm
* memory — only a single instance can run, but it requires no extra setup
Storage: