Hi Eric,

First of all, please don't take it the wrong way, but... What is your
experience in doing benchmarks? Would you provide a document with a detailed
description of the benchmarking environment and tests you are performing?
Are you only benchmarking for small static files? What products/software are
you using?
We all need benchmarks to see how cherokee compares to other web servers,
but IMHO this is not a good foundation to say "Nginx is really 119x faster
than cherokee" (of course, I can't assure the opposite).
What I suggest is to define a benchmark protocol in order to have well
documented comparison of cherokee against other web servers like apache,
lighttpd and nginx.
Cheers,

Pablo

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Eric Lapouyade <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am still benchmarking Cherokee 0.99.20 on Ubuntu 9.04 on an Intel i7 940
> (4 cores)
>
> One month ago, I found that Apache2 was faster than Cherokee (14 000 Req/s
> vs 10 000 Req/s for serving small static files with a 'ab -n 1000 -c 20')
> As I was surprised, Cherokee claim to be the fastest, I was wondering
> wether I have a bad linux environnement.
> So I tried Nginx, and this is really surprising :
>
> For a small static file, Nginx is able to do 25 000 Req/s (ab -n 100000 -c
> 20) and even 59 790 Req/s with the keep-alive (ab -k -n 100000 -c 20) !!
>
> In the same time, I tried to send keep-alive requests to cherokee (ab -k -n
> 10000 -c 20) and I discovered that performance is falling from 10 000 Req/s
> without keep-alive to only 501 Req/s with keep-alive !!!
>
> So, with keep-alive, on ubuntu 9.04, Nginx is really 119x faster than
> cherokee :
>
> As I have seen some people in the mailing list having same kind of
> slowlyness on Ubuntu 9.04 I wonder whether there is a referenced problem
> with this Linux : do you know ?
>
> Regards,
>
> Eric
>
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