You need to have your stress testing tool send the following request header to trigger compressed content:
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate for wget, that's: wget --header="Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" == Will Xavier Noria wrote: > On Dec 9, 2006, at 4:57 PM, Xavier Noria wrote: > >> Well, looks like the limit is working with Nginx, but I get very poor >> performance compared to Apache, same server machine, same (remote) >> stress machine. Apache is serving about 17 req/s, whereas Nginx is >> serving about 5 req/s. Since Nginx is known to be fast I bet my >> config, albeit simple, is somehow wrong. I attach it below in case >> some experienced eye catches something. > > I think I got something. The Content-Length reported by ab for Apache > is 4K, and for Nginx is 19K, so my guess is that compression is not > being triggered. If I use wget content is not compressed either. But > it comes compressed if I use Firefox. > > That would explain the difference. I will try another stress tool then. > > -- fxn > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
