On Fri, Aug 07, 2009 at 07:28:56AM -0400, michaelvv wrote:

> Hi nginx...
>
> For sometime ago i have compared nginx/apache performance on HTTPS request.
> at that time i got ca 10 fold performance gain with nginx.
>
> So when i installed the newest stable version it was only 20-25 % more.
>
> Does anyone have seen this issue , the fastest version is 0.6.38 here i got the
> result from ab....
>
> I version 0.6.38 , i got ca 800 req / sec.
>
>
> Server Software: nginx/0.8.7
> Server Hostname: 192.168.1.97
> Server Port: 443
> SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1/SSLv3,DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA,1024,256
>
> Document Path: /
> Document Length: 4 bytes
>
> Concurrency Level: 50
> Time taken for tests: 7.025 seconds
> Complete requests: 1000
> Failed requests: 0
> Write errors: 0
> Total transferred: 220000 bytes
> HTML transferred: 4000 bytes
> Requests per second: 142.34 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request: 351.270 (mean)
> Time per request: 7.025 (mean, across all concurrent requests)
> Transfer rate: 30.58 received
>
>
> PS! proberly i need sometink added in nginx.conf , now i'm using this for SSL
>
> ssl on;
> ssl_certificate /usr/local/nginx/conf/*************.com.crt;
> ssl_certificate_key /usr/local/nginx/conf/*************.com.key;
>
> ssl_session_timeout 5m;
> ssl_protocols SSLv3;
> ssl_ciphers HIGH:!ADH;
> ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
>
> regards /Michael

Could you test 3 versions - 0.6.38i, 0.7.61, and 0.8.7 built with the same
OpenSSL version with the same simple configuraiton on the same host
running ab on an other host ?


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