[Cherokee] Benchmarks of cherokee vs nginx

[Ryan B]

I'm guessing any form of vps setup's would have issues with
benchmarking.. I was hardly going to run this on my home connection or
pay for a uber dedi. I'm not trying to play favourites, I'm just
comparing the difference between the 2 web servers running on my vps,
and its pretty obvious looking a long/short-term graphs, using the "oh
you're on a openvz/vps, therefore this doesn't count" card doesn't
hold.

The graphs don't deviate much. The node isn't under any great load,
and it would show in the graphs (I could post longer 2-3-4 days but
they're pretty much the same).


2011/5/25 Tony Zakula <tonyzakula at gmail.com>:
>> Both web servers packages are compiled on ubuntu 11.04/openvz hosting.
>
> Using openvz hosting?  That is not even a real test.  There are so
> many variables, tweaks and adjustments when using OpenVZ that you
> could not possibly count on that bench mark even if you controlled the
> server.  If you are using a hosting providers server, it makes it even
> more nebulous because they will be using their own controls.  The
> memory and processing units are not even for real memory.   With
> OpenVZ you can tweak those at will.
>
> The only way to get real benchmarks is on a real machine.
>
> Tony
>
>
> 2011/5/24 Jędrzej Nowak <me at pigmej.eu>:
>> Hmm
>>
>> You can easy compress things in cherokee too. Just enable it in
>> cherokee-admin ;-)
>> For "gzip static" like behaviour you need to enable flcache (with
>> PURGE support for your config).
>>
>> IOCache in cherokee is caching only plain files when you don't use
>> gzip... That's why.
>>
>> Greetings,
>> Jędrzej Nowak
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Ryan B <mp3geek at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> This is static content (only http, and no php enabled), also using
>>> gzip-static.in nginx (cache-io doesn't quite cut it in cherokee)
>>>
>>> I found the cache too aggressive in cherokee, if I upload a newer file
>>> I'd still keep serving the the cached file for a while (I wasn't
>>> actually sure when it actually expired).. so I manually lowered the
>>> expiry time for the cache (900secs), performance dives :/
>>>
>>> Okay a quick break down of the stats..
>>>
>>> Nginx-generated traffic is cut in half (thanks to gzip-static)  vs Cherokee
>>> Nginx: 118Mb Ram, Cherokee: 260Mb
>>> CPU: nginx is by-far using less, that race isn't even close.
>>>
>>> A break down, http://i.imgur.com/JVO1w.png
>>>
>>> Both web servers packages are compiled on ubuntu 11.04/openvz hosting.
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