response times and network io

[Joe Williams]

please excuse my typo. regarding network I/O nginx uses consistently 
lower I/O than apache.

regardless i am curious about how it processes requests differently to 
obtain lower response times and network I/O.

thanks for any help you can provide.

-Joe


Joe Williams wrote:
> i am performing some httperf tests against apache and nginx. something 
> i noticed that piqued my interest were the consistency of response 
> times (0.4 ms each run regardless of number of request, much lower 
> than apache in all cases) and network I/O (consistently higher than 
> apache regardless of number of request). it also uses less cpu than 
> apache and doesn't nearly drive up the load.
>
> are these normal results? is there a mechanism in nginx that keeps the 
> response times low and consistent? also, is it normal that it uses 
> more network I/O? if so, what is the cause? to me it would seem like 
> that it uses more bandwidth to respond to the same number of requests 
> which seems inefficient.
>
> please correct me if i am wrong. i am just trying to understand the 
> core differences in how nginx works in comparison to apache and why i 
> would see these performance differences.
>
> thanks for the help.
>
> -joe
>

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Name: Joseph A. Williams
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