performance testing

[Geoffrey Hartz]

AB is not good enough for testing...

Use http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki

on debian-like install "libevent-dev"

AB didn't use multicore/thread..

With weighttp I was able to hit 100 000q/s

2013/10/25 youreright <nginx-forum at nginx.us>:
> I'm getting under 5000 requests per second hitting just the nginx welcome
> page on a default configuration.
>
> Any tips to improve this please?
>
> setup is:
> ==
> macbook pro retina 10.8.3
> RoverMR:webserver rover$ nginx -v
> nginx version: nginx/1.4.3
>
> == Running ab test ==
>
> RoverMR:webserver rover$ ab -n 1000 -c 100 http://127.0.0.1/
> This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
> Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
>
> Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
> Completed 100 requests
> Completed 200 requests
> Completed 300 requests
> Completed 400 requests
> Completed 500 requests
> Completed 600 requests
> Completed 700 requests
> Completed 800 requests
> Completed 900 requests
> Completed 1000 requests
> Finished 1000 requests
>
>
> Server Software:        nginx/1.4.3
> Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
> Server Port:            80
>
> Document Path:          /
> Document Length:        612 bytes
>
> Concurrency Level:      100
> Time taken for tests:   0.268 seconds
> Complete requests:      1000
> Failed requests:        0
> Write errors:           0
> Total transferred:      844000 bytes
> HTML transferred:       612000 bytes
> Requests per second:    3729.66 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request:       26.812 [ms] (mean)
> Time per request:       0.268 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
> Transfer rate:          3074.06 [Kbytes/sec] received
>
> Connection Times (ms)
>               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
> Connect:        1   12   3.1     13      17
> Processing:     1   13   2.5     14      18
> Waiting:        1   13   2.6     14      18
> Total:         17   25   3.5     26      30
>
> Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
>   50%     26
>   66%     27
>   75%     28
>   80%     28
>   90%     29
>   95%     29
>   98%     30
>   99%     30
>  100%     30 (longest request)
> RoverMR:webserver rover$
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,244110,244110#msg-244110
>
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Geoffrey HARTZ