{"id":462,"date":"2009-11-29T22:54:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/75.134.27.61:8101\/wordpress\/?p=462"},"modified":"2012-08-14T20:50:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T01:50:55","slug":"tornado-web-very-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/tornado-web-very-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Tornado Web Server – Very Fast!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just did a benchmark comparison on Tornado Web Server and Apache + PHP server. The result is pretty amazing.<\/p>\n

What to test: <\/strong><\/h3>\n

A simple Hello World application.<\/p>\n

How:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
ab -n 1000 -c 300 http:\/\/myserver.ip<\/pre>\n
Test Environment<\/strong><\/h3>\n
OS: FreeBSD 7.1
\nCPU: Pentium III 933 MHz
\nRam: 256 MB
\nPHP: 5.2.9
\nPython: 2.5.4
\nTornado: 0.2<\/p>\n
Result:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Apache + PHP:<\/strong><\/p>\n
Concurrency Level:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 300\r\nTime taken for tests:\u00a0\u00a0 3.515 seconds\r\nComplete requests:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1000\r\nFailed requests:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\r\nWrite errors:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\r\nTotal transferred:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 255000 bytes\r\nHTML transferred:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12000 bytes\r\nRequests per second:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 284.50<\/strong> [#\/sec] (mean)\r\nTime per request:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1054.499 [ms] (mean)\r\nTime per request:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.515 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)\r\nTransfer rate:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 70.85 [Kbytes\/sec] received<\/pre>\n
Tornado Web Server:<\/strong><\/p>\n
Concurrency Level:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 300\r\nTime taken for tests:\u00a0\u00a0 1.907 seconds\r\nComplete requests:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1000\r\nFailed requests:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\r\nWrite errors:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 0\r\nTotal transferred:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 168000 bytes\r\nHTML transferred:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 12000 bytes\r\nRequests per second:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 524.48<\/strong> [#\/sec] (mean)\r\nTime per request:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 571.993 [ms] (mean)\r\nTime per request:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1.907 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)\r\nTransfer rate:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 86.05 [Kbytes\/sec] received<\/pre>\n
What do these numbers mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n
Tornado Web Server can handle 1.84<\/strong> times more requests than Apache + PHP server in a given time!<\/p>\n
–Derrick<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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