Benchmarking Nginx on a prehistoric PIII 500

[Igor Sysoev]

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,
> >  >
> >  >
> >
> >
> 

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