One forgotten specific point I also wanted a reply upon: - Why is nginx' latency that high (200ms) while serving the built-in nop.gif content? (cf. 'The (long) story of Nginx's "wrk"' section) --- *B. R.*
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 12:39 AM, B.R. <reallfqq-ng...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > Hello, > > Documentating myself on proper benchmarking, I ran into the following page: > http://gwan.com/en_apachebench_httperf.html > > Their conclusion is that their product is the best of all. Well, 'of > course' one might say... ;o) > > What surprised me most that they claim to use less resources AND perform > better. That particularly strikes me because usually ot favor one side, you > take blows on the other one. > > To me, the problem of such tests is that they are a mix of > realistic/unrealistic behaviors, the first being invoked to justify useful > conclusions, the latter to make a specific environment so that features > from the Web server (as opposed to other components of the infrastructure) > are tested. > > They are arrogant enough to claim theirs is bigger and paranoid enough to > call almost every other benchmark biased or coming from haste/FUD > campaigns. That is only OK if they are as pure as the driven snow... > > I need expert eyes of yours to determine to which end those claims are > grounded. > > Particular points: > - Is their nginx configuration <http://gwan.com/source/nginx.conf> > suitable for valid benchmark results? > - Why is your wrk test tool built in such way in pre-establishes TCP? > - Why is nginx pre-allocating resources so its memory footprint is large > when connections are pre-established? I thought nginx event-based system > was allocating resources on-the-fly, as G-WAN seems to be doing it. (cf. > 'The (long) story of Nginx's "wrk"' section) > - Why is wrk (in G-WAN's opinion) 'too slow under 10,000 simultaneous > connections'? (cf. 'The (long) story of Nginx's "wrk"' section) > --- > *B. R.* >
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