On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 08:26:32PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:30:19PM +0200, Dinh Pham wrote:
>
> > I have come across an article whose author claimed that his web server
> > can handle 10 000 requests per second. Because I am far from expert on
> > high performance web servers so I would like to ask you if his
> > benchmarks has any flaw or his web server is too simple to be slow?
> >
> > I have never thought that a LISP-based implementation can be as fast as
> > C-based implementations such as Nginx. Is there any magic here?
> >
> > You can read his article here http://john.freml.in/teepeedee2-c10k
>
> On notebook running FreeBSD 7.0 on Pentium M 1.70GHz using configuration:
>
> server {
> listen 8000;
> return 404;
> access_log off;
> }
>
>
> I have got these results via localhost:
>
> ab -n 30000 -c 10 ~8200 r/s
> ab -n 30000 -c 10 -k ~20000 r/s
>
> This means that this microbenchmark tests mostly TCP connection
> establishment via localhost: keepalive is 2.4 faster.

BTW, using embedded perl:

server {
listen 8010;
access_log off;

location = /test {
perl 'sub {
my $r = shift;
$r->send_http_header("text/html");
$r->print("<h1>Hello ", $r->variable("arg_name"), "</h1>");
return OK;
}';
}
}

"ab -n 30000 -c 10 -k" has got ~7800 r/s.


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