Re: [RFC] Benchmarking Apache::Registry and Perl Content Handler

2000-04-14 Thread Buddy Lee Haystack

Hello!

Can you please provide the technical specifications for the hardware that performed 
these tests.

Thanks!



Stas Bekman wrote:
 
 Disclaimer: the numbers here are too low for mod_perl, because my machine
 is to slow :( I'll rerun the same tests on a much faster machine
 before releasing the new version of the Guide.
 
 =head1 Benchmarking Apache::Registry and Perl Content Handler
 
 =head2 Empty scripts
 
 First lets see the overhead that Apache::Regsitry adds. In order to do
 that we will use an almost empty scripts, that only send a basic
 header and one word as a content.
 
 The Iregistry.pl script running under CApache::Registry:
 
   registry.pl
   ---
   use strict;
   print "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r\n";
   print "Hello";
 
 The Perl Content handler:
 
   Benchmark/Handler.pm
   
   package Benchmark::Handler;
   use Apache::Constants qw(:common);
 
   sub handler{
 $r = shift;
 $r-send_http_header('text/html');
 $r-print("Hello");
 return OK;
   }
   1;
 
 with settings:
 
   PerlModule Benchmark::Handler
   Location /benchmark_handler
 SetHandler perl-script
 PerlHandler Benchmark::Handler
   /Location
 
 The benchmark:
 
   % ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://localhost/perl/benchmarks/registry.pl
 
   Requests per second:21.27
   Time taken for tests:   43.924 seconds
   Connnection Times (ms)
 min   avg   max
   Connect:0 3   218
   Processing:   223   435   679
   Total:223   438   897
 
   % ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://localhost/benchmark_handler
 
   Requests per second:49.03
   Time taken for tests:   20.394 seconds
   Connnection Times (ms)
 min   avg   max
   Connect:0 1   201
   Processing:59   201   605
   Total: 59   202   806
 
 So we can see that the average added overhead is about:
 
   438 - 202 = 236 milli-seconds
 
 per script.
 
 =head2 Heavy Scripts
 
 Of course this overhead is insignificant when the code itself is
 significantly heavier and slower. Let's leave the above code examples
 umodified but add some CPU intensive processing operation (it can be
 also an IO operation or a database query.)
 
   my $x = 100;
   my $y = log ($x ** 100)  for (0..1);
 
   % ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://localhost/perl/benchmarks/registry.pl
 
   Time taken for tests:   121.944 seconds
   Requests per second:8.20
 
   Connnection Times (ms)
 min   avg   max
   Connect:011   950
   Processing:   747  1204   888
   Total:747  1215  1838
 
   %ab -n 1000 -c 10  http://localhost/benchmark_handler
 
   Time taken for tests:   41.166 seconds
   Requests per second:24.29
 
   Connnection Times (ms)
 min   avg   max
   Connect:0 3   150
   Processing:73   407  1211
   Total: 73   410  1361
 
 META: something is wrong here! It shouldn't be that slower. Should try
 run it on a faster machine!
 
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Re: [RFC] Benchmarking Apache::Registry and Perl Content Handler

2000-04-14 Thread Stas Bekman

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Buddy Lee Haystack wrote:

 Hello!
 
 Can you please provide the technical specifications for the hardware that performed 
these tests.

Sure, but the point here is a comparison and not absolute values,
therefore I believe this doesn't change a thing. Am I wrong? 

Anyway, here are the relevant specs:

Both the client (ab) and server were running on the same, quite loaded
machine, where 25% of CPU were eaten by xmms :) 

SW:
Perl: version 5.005_03 built for i386-linux
Server: Apache/1.3.10-dev (Unix) mod_perl/1.21_01-dev

HW: Memory: DIMM 256M
CPU:
processor   : 0
vendor_id   : GenuineIntel
cpu family  : 5
model   : 4
model name  : Pentium MMX
stepping: 4
cpu MHz : 200.460259
fdiv_bug: no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug: yes
coma_bug: no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp  : yes
flags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips: 399.77

I think I've some HW problems as everything is too slow lately :(

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