Benchmarking Nginx on a prehistoric PIII 500

[Aníbal Rojas]

You can install it in a live cd, it should be no problem.

But livecds are know to be slow, a bechmark should not be compromised
in resources.

-- 
Aníbal

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Thomas <iamkenzo at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
>  > >
>  > >
>  >
>  >