{"id":478,"date":"2009-11-30T23:26:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/75.134.27.61:8101\/wordpress\/?p=478"},"modified":"2012-08-14T20:50:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T01:50:43","slug":"nginx-vs-tornado-web-vs-apache-performance-benchmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icesquare.com\/wordpress\/nginx-vs-tornado-web-vs-apache-performance-benchmark\/","title":{"rendered":"nginx vs Tornado Web vs Apache Performance Benchmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s put the nginx, Tornado and Apache and see who is the winner.<\/p>\n

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

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

How:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
ab -n 10000 -c 300 http:\/\/myserver.ip<\/pre>\n
Test Environment:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
OS: Ubuntu 9.10 (32-bit) \/ Linux 2.6.31
\nCPU: Pentium Celeron M 1.5 GHz
\nRam: 512 MB
\nApache: 2.2.12
\nPHP: 5.2.10
\nPython: 2.6
\nTornado: 0.2
\nnginx: 0.6.13<\/p>\n
Result:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Apache<\/strong><\/p>\n
Server Software:        Apache\/2.2.12\r\nServer Port:            80\r\n\r\nDocument Path:          \/\r\nDocument Length:        13 bytes\r\n\r\nConcurrency Level:      300\r\nTime taken for tests:   5.295 seconds\r\nComplete requests:      10000\r\nFailed requests:        0\r\nWrite errors:           0\r\nTotal transferred:      2863146 bytes\r\nHTML transferred:       130143 bytes\r\nRequests per second:    1888.58<\/strong> [#\/sec] (mean)\r\nTime per request:       158.850 [ms] (mean)\r\nTime per request:       0.529 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)\r\nTransfer rate:          528.05 [Kbytes\/sec] received\r\n\r\nConnection Times (ms)\r\n              min  mean[+\/-sd] median   max\r\nConnect:        0    8 151.0      0    3028\r\nProcessing:     0  122 602.0     48    5289\r\nWaiting:        0  122 600.8     48    5284\r\nTotal:         10  130 622.1     49    5292\r\n\r\nPercentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)\r\n  50%     49\r\n  66%     50\r\n  75%     50\r\n  80%     51\r\n  90%     53\r\n  95%     63\r\n  98%     68\r\n  99%   5271\r\n 100%   5292 (longest request)<\/pre>\n
nginx<\/strong><\/p>\n
Server Software:        nginx\/0.6.13\r\nServer Port:            8000\r\n\r\nDocument Path:          \/\r\nDocument Length:        13 bytes\r\n\r\nConcurrency Level:      300\r\nTime taken for tests:   3.172 seconds\r\nComplete requests:      10000\r\nFailed requests:        0\r\nWrite errors:           0\r\nTotal transferred:      2230000 bytes\r\nHTML transferred:       130000 bytes\r\nRequests per second:    3152.12<\/strong> [#\/sec] (mean)\r\nTime per request:       95.174 [ms] (mean)\r\nTime per request:       0.317 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)\r\nTransfer rate:          686.45 [Kbytes\/sec] received\r\n\r\nConnection Times (ms)\r\n              min  mean[+\/-sd] median   max\r\nConnect:        0    2  68.3      0    3057\r\nProcessing:     0   70 359.1     27    3164\r\nWaiting:        0   70 359.1     26    3164\r\nTotal:         10   72 365.6     27    3169\r\n\r\nPercentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)\r\n  50%     27\r\n  66%     27\r\n  75%     27\r\n  80%     27\r\n  90%     28\r\n  95%     29\r\n  98%     32\r\n  99%   3157\r\n 100%   3169 (longest request)<\/pre>\n
Tornado Web:<\/strong><\/p>\n
Server Software:        TornadoServer\/0.1\r\nServer Port:            8888\r\n\r\nDocument Path:          \/\r\nDocument Length:        12 bytes\r\n\r\nConcurrency Level:      300\r\nTime taken for tests:   5.109 seconds\r\nComplete requests:      10000\r\nFailed requests:        0\r\nWrite errors:           0\r\nTotal transferred:      1680000 bytes\r\nHTML transferred:       120000 bytes\r\nRequests per second:    1957.33<\/strong> [#\/sec] (mean)\r\nTime per request:       153.270 [ms] (mean)\r\nTime per request:       0.511 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)\r\nTransfer rate:          321.12 [Kbytes\/sec] received\r\n\r\nConnection Times (ms)\r\n              min  mean[+\/-sd] median   max\r\nConnect:        0   32 309.3      0    3035\r\nProcessing:    33  103  28.5    103     375\r\nWaiting:       33  102  28.5    103     375\r\nTotal:         36  135 311.3    103    3154\r\n\r\nPercentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)\r\n  50%    103\r\n  66%    105\r\n  75%    108\r\n  80%    112\r\n  90%    116\r\n  95%    126\r\n  98%    313\r\n  99%   3121\r\n 100%   3154 (longest request)<\/pre>\n
What do these numbers mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n
In a given time, if nginx and Tornado Web can handle 1.66<\/strong> and 1.036<\/strong> times more requests than Apache, respectively! In the other words, the server is more efficient and it can use the saved resource to do something else!<\/p>\n
–Derrick<\/p>\n
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