I can confirm that you won't get nginx's sendfile level of performance, if that helps at all. However, if we're to investigate a performance issue I want to be sure that an issue has been competently discovered. The minimum for me would be seeing results from a trusted benchmarking tool.
B. On 23 March 2012 12:41, Jonathan Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm aware of that - but it still doesn't explain the disparity. I was > using curl for the Nginx tests too... > > Is the reason you're asking the question because you believe the > performance should be much better than I'm seeing? > > On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: >> curl is not a benchmarking tool. Each curl command is opening a new >> tcp connection, etc. Can you try with httperf, apachebench, tsung, >> nodeload? >> >> B. >> >> On 23 March 2012 12:36, Jonathan Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> It was just a script that looped over the keys for 1000 documents, >>> fetching them one after another (using curl). >>> >>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Using which http benchmarking tool (and exactly which settings)? >>>> >>>> On 23 March 2012 12:30, Jonathan Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> My initial CouchDB test was over 1000 GETs (all to roughly similar >>>>> documents), taking an average of the total time vs the total amount of >>>>> data recieved. >>>>> >>>>> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Robert Newson <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> Are you really extrapolating mb/s from a single curl command? > > > > -- > Jon > > Jonathan Williamson > Systems Architect > ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > +44 (0) 7843 301 246 mobile > +44 (0) 208 242 6364 switch > > www.netcopy.co.uk > :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: > > IMPORTANT NOTICE: > ======================================================================================== > Netcopy Limited is a Company registered in England and Wales under > Company No. 07308350 > Registered office: 2 East Common, Harpenden, Herts, AL5 1BJ > The contents of this email (and any attachment): > (1) are confidential and may be legally privileged - if it is not > meant for you, please tell the sender, do not forward or copy the > contents and delete it from your system immediately; > (2) come from its author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions > of Netcopy Ltd. > While emails and attachments are virus checked, we cannot accept any > liability in respect of any viruses. > We may monitor emails sent to Netcopy. > Want to know more about Netcopy? > Visit our website: www.netcopy.co.uk
