10 000 req/s: tpd2 - why it is so fast?

[Arvind Jayaprakash]

On Oct 09, Akins, Brian wrote:
>FWIW, in our testing (using something slightly more sophisticated than ab),
>we can sustain about 70k requests per second in nginx.  (Obviously, perfect
>network, small objects, fast clients, etc.)  This is on normal "server"
>hardware.

Could you tell us what did you use instead of ab? I've always found the
benchmark tool to be a limitation when performing such tests with nginx.