AB is not good enough for testing... Use http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/weighttp/wiki
on debian-like install "libevent-dev" AB didn't use multicore/thread.. With weighttp I was able to hit 100 000q/s 2013/10/25 youreright <nginx-fo...@nginx.us>: > I'm getting under 5000 requests per second hitting just the nginx welcome > page on a default configuration. > > Any tips to improve this please? > > setup is: > == > macbook pro retina 10.8.3 > RoverMR:webserver rover$ nginx -v > nginx version: nginx/1.4.3 > > == Running ab test == > > RoverMR:webserver rover$ ab -n 1000 -c 100 http://127.0.0.1/ > This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $> > Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ > Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/ > > Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient) > Completed 100 requests > Completed 200 requests > Completed 300 requests > Completed 400 requests > Completed 500 requests > Completed 600 requests > Completed 700 requests > Completed 800 requests > Completed 900 requests > Completed 1000 requests > Finished 1000 requests > > > Server Software: nginx/1.4.3 > Server Hostname: 127.0.0.1 > Server Port: 80 > > Document Path: / > Document Length: 612 bytes > > Concurrency Level: 100 > Time taken for tests: 0.268 seconds > Complete requests: 1000 > Failed requests: 0 > Write errors: 0 > Total transferred: 844000 bytes > HTML transferred: 612000 bytes > Requests per second: 3729.66 [#/sec] (mean) > Time per request: 26.812 [ms] (mean) > Time per request: 0.268 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) > Transfer rate: 3074.06 [Kbytes/sec] received > > Connection Times (ms) > min mean[+/-sd] median max > Connect: 1 12 3.1 13 17 > Processing: 1 13 2.5 14 18 > Waiting: 1 13 2.6 14 18 > Total: 17 25 3.5 26 30 > > Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) > 50% 26 > 66% 27 > 75% 28 > 80% 28 > 90% 29 > 95% 29 > 98% 30 > 99% 30 > 100% 30 (longest request) > RoverMR:webserver rover$ > > Posted at Nginx Forum: > http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,244110,244110#msg-244110 > > _______________________________________________ > nginx mailing list > nginx@nginx.org > http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx -- Geoffrey HARTZ _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx