Weird difference between nginx and apache...

Roxis roxis at list.ru
Sat Nov 22 01:22:17 MSK 2008


On Friday 21 November 2008, Robert Gabriel wrote:
> I have made some test related to the speed of apache and nginx on my new
> server to see which would be the best for running. Of course the test
> have showed me that nginx is the best, there is no fight and no question
> about it, but in my test I have found one thing weird.
> I have test botch apache and nginx with an image, a small 1-2k image,
> but the ab results I have this:
>
> Apache 2.0.63:
> Document Path:          /img.png
> Document Length:        1463 bytes
>
> Total transferred:      17538570 bytes
> HTML transferred:       14695835 bytes
>
> Nginx 0.6.32:
> Document Path:          /img.png
> Document Length:        1463 bytes
>
> Total transferred:      16841796 bytes
> HTML transferred:       14771911 bytes
>
> My simple question is why?! Is nginx losing something or apache adding
> something, if there is perfectly the same image.
>
> Im not so good at this kind of things, I just wanna know if there is
> some problems someplace.
>
> Thanks!

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