Are you running these tests cold? You probably want to throw out the first bunch of requests (say, 1000) to better simulate real-world running conditions.
Also, what's up with the non-2xx responses? Are you benchmarking an error page or something? -Nate On Apr 3, 2007, at 3:33 PM, Benjamin Jackson wrote: > I tried benchmarking the same site behind an NGINX proxy with both > fastcgi and mongrel, and for some reason mongrel is performing pretty > poorly in comparison. > > Any idea what I might be doing wrong? > > Here's my benchmarks for 1 fcgi: > > Server Software: nginx/0.4.0 > Server Hostname: eship.com.br > Server Port: 80 > > Document Path: / > Document Length: 95 bytes > > Concurrency Level: 100 > Time taken for tests: 10.437 seconds > Complete requests: 1000 > Failed requests: 0 > Broken pipe errors: 0 > Non-2xx responses: 1000 > Total transferred: 366000 bytes > HTML transferred: 95000 bytes > Requests per second: 95.81 [#/sec] (mean) > Time per request: 1043.70 [ms] (mean) > Time per request: 10.44 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent > requests) > Transfer rate: 35.07 [Kbytes/sec] received > > Connnection Times (ms) > min mean[+/-sd] median max > Connect: 182 435 294.5 430 3428 > Processing: 371 569 296.5 505 2674 > Waiting: 189 569 296.5 505 2674 > Total: 371 1004 418.8 938 3963 > > > > > And for 2 mongrels: > > Server Software: nginx/0.4.0 > Server Hostname: eship.com.br > Server Port: 80 > > Document Path: / > Document Length: 95 bytes > > Concurrency Level: 100 > Time taken for tests: 13.041 seconds > Complete requests: 1000 > Failed requests: 0 > Broken pipe errors: 0 > Non-2xx responses: 1000 > Total transferred: 417000 bytes > HTML transferred: 95000 bytes > Requests per second: 76.68 [#/sec] (mean) > Time per request: 1304.10 [ms] (mean) > Time per request: 13.04 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent > requests) > Transfer rate: 31.98 [Kbytes/sec] received > > Connnection Times (ms) > min mean[+/-sd] median max > Connect: 175 234 292.9 187 3099 > Processing: 204 897 806.4 611 5619 > Waiting: 187 897 806.5 611 5619 > Total: 365 1132 840.6 842 5804 > _______________________________________________ > Mongrel-users mailing list > Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users > _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
