[Cherokee] Benchmarks of cherokee vs nginx

[Tony Zakula]

Right, as with any benchmark, it is better to say up front what
conditions you tested with, how you tested, and what variables were
involved.

So myhost.com, with this VPS package, with Cherokee configured this
way, and Nginx configured this way, etc.

It is not a "this doesn't count card" to you, but it is for most
people.  I am happy to see people share, after all, the conclusion
would be, migrate to a host that better supports Cherokee if you love
using it, or ask your host to tweak their VPS if you cannot get the
benchmarks acceptable.  The conclusion is not that Nginx is better
than Cherokee.

Even those memory and cpu numbers are totally fake.  They are software
numbers fed by OpenVZ to the container.

Tony


2011/5/24 Jędrzej Nowak <me at pigmej.eu>:
> Well...
>
> You compared cherokee without GZIP to nginx with GZIP... And you're
> comparing a memory used by cache...
> It's a miss point.
>
> Greetings,
> Jędrzej Nowak
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Ryan B <mp3geek at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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