You might try a more current version of Nginx and see if the proxying performance has improved compared to the FastCGI support. You're using a fairly old version.
http://nginx.net/CHANGES On 4/3/07, Nathan Vack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Cheers, Kevin Williams http://www.almostserio.us/ "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic." - Arthur C. Clarke _______________________________________________ Mongrel-users mailing list Mongrel-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-users
