Benchmarking Nginx on a prehistoric PIII 500

Thomas iamkenzo at gmail.com
Thu Mar 13 16:09:24 MSK 2008


Thanks Denis, your tests are really interesting.

Does anybody know of a LiveCD that would have httperf on it?

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 1:46 PM, Denis Arh <denis at arh.cc> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Here are results of the test I've made a couple of weeks ago:
> http://blog.arh.cc/index.php?/archives/6-HTTP-server-comparison.html
>
> Denis.
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:48:57PM +0100, Thomas wrote:
> >
> > > Yeah that could be the problem, I just realized I was testing from my
> > > server. My other box is windows, so I'll have to install cygwin to
> > > compile httperf, because I am not aware of any available binary for
> > > windows.
> > >
> > > It was too strange that 1 Mongrel would perform as well (or as bad) as
> > > 2 thin servers. Also the apache and nginx results are too close, there
> > > is no reason why I get the same result.
> >
> > It seems that you benchmarked httperf itself.
> > I do not think that cygwin httperf would be better: windows does not have
> > high perfomance TCP/IP and cygwin emulation will make things more worse.
> >
> >
> > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:49 PM, kingler <kingler at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > You are running the httperf command on the server... Have you tried it
> > > >  with another machine?
> > > >
> > > >  Liang
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Thomas <iamkenzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >  > Hi Igor,
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  That's pretty sick! 2000req/s is like 3 times as much as my
> result!!!
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  What could possibly make so  much difference between your setup
> and
> > > >  >  mine? The hardware? Config file? I do however have some other
> services
> > > >  >  running in the background: mail server, monitoring tools, etc.
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  I'll checkout more thoroughly the nginx documentation too.
> > > >  >
> > > >  >
> > > >  >  Thanks for giving these figures,
> > > >  >
> > > >  >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Igor Sysoev
> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >
>
>





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