I was looking at lighttpd performance (at http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3APerformance )
Considering how well AOLserver stands up to lighttpd, my question was why does lighttpd do better? For sending small files AOLserver is slightly better, but then performance goes down. One reason might be that lighttpd uses a syscall that sends the file directly to the network adapter, bypassing lighttpd. I wonder if AOLserver does this, or if it is possible to detect errors in the webserver if the whole file isn't sent. Another reason might be that lighttpd doesn't write an access.log by default. I wonder if you can turn this off in AOLserver? Or, if not, can the benchmark be run for lighttpd with the access.log enabled: http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModAccessLog With multi-cpus and lighttpd processes, lighttpd might mess up the access.log writing, but if these writes are taken out of the performance equation, it sure gives lighttpd a headstart. Are there any hints on how to setup the benchmarking? I can run one here on a 1cpu/2core/64bit laptop. If we can establish a benchmarking suite, it would help test various setting for ns_limits and ns_pools. It would also be interesting to see benchmarks under misbehaving clients. One other factor is number of disks. Lighttpd recommends 2 x number of disks to determine processes, although it seems like this wouldn't be such an easy choice. Ideas? tom jackson On Tuesday 25 September 2007 00:50, John Buckman wrote: > I did some benchmarks of aolserver vs lighthttpd on plain files of > various sizes, on my 8cpu 64 bit server. > > For 3 runs, with a 4k text file, the lighthttpd stats were 15103.87/ > s, 14845.20/s and 15307.17/s, vs (as Dossy reports http://dossy.org/ > archives/000517.html) aolserver's 15237.00/s. > > Result: Aolserver is performing virtually identically to lighthttpd > with a small 4k file. > > With a 44k JPG (the BookMooch home page illustration) aolserver is > slightly slower: > aolserver: 8164.54/s, 8283.93/s > lighthttpd: 10281.01/s, 9969.91/s > > With 1,414k sized zip, aolserver is about 1/2 as fast: > aolserver: 406.36/s, 421.10/s > lighthttpd: 844.05/s, 807.83/s > > with a 128mb file, aolserver is 40% slower: > aolserver: 5.42/s > lighthttpd: 8.88/s > > And just FYI "hello world" in tcl (<% ns_adp_puts "hello" %>): > aolserver: 950.85/s > > I haven't done a "hello world" in C: I assume it'd be close to the > 16k/s speed -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
