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May 2, 2008, 8:58 AM
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Performance test data and likely memory leak: 0.54 for Windows
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Since I didn't have much experience with Cherokee, I did some (brutal)
apache ab testing last night with 0.54 Windows version.
The good news is, Cherokee completed one million static requests and
one million scgi dynamic requests in about 3 hours, most successfully.
5 requests failed to connect in each group, I'm not sure about the
reason. Two ab commands started at about the same time. see detailed
data below.
The test also seems to have revealed a memory leak. When the test was
done, cherokee process took about 100MB memory (it started with
2.5MB.) I wasn't sure if the leak was from static requests or dynamic
requests. So I re-did 10,000 request with a static page, and didn't
observe memory leak. In the dynamic page tests, memory usage kept
growing, at the speed of around 100 bytes per request. When the load
stopped, the memory didn't get released.
Not sure if this has also been observed on Linux?
The scgi performance was quite impressive. I'm not sure about the
details of Cherokee's scgi and fcgi implementation. In my testing, a
multi-threaded scgi back-end written in Python was much faster
handling concurrent requests than a single-threaded fcgi backend
written in a compiled language, when the number of concurrent requests
was more than 5. But dealing with continuous but non-concurrent
requests, the natively compiled fastcgi takes about 40% of the time of
what it takes the scgi Python app to handle a request. This tells me
that the Python scgi backend (web.py) is able to cope with pretty
heavy traffic, which will be a bit less than half of the ultimate
capacity that could be achieved by running a server pool of
fastcgi/scgi written in a compiled language. (I'm assuming the
overhead of fcgi and scgi are similar, or the difference ignorable.)
The test is done on a single-CPU vmware guest OS running on a powerful
core 2 dual host. It was taking most CPU time of a core during the
test. No other vms or heavy tasks were run during the tests.
C:\Internet>ab -n 1000000 -c 1 http://localhost/image/google.html
Server Software: Cherokee/0.5.4
Server Hostname: localhost
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /image/static.html
Document Length: 67859 bytes
Concurrency Level: 1
Time taken for tests: 6012.703125 seconds
Complete requests: 1000000
Failed requests: 5
(Connect: 5, Length: 0, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: -681476736 bytes
HTML transferred: -860476736 bytes
Requests per second: 166.31 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 6.013 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 6.013 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: -110.68 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 1 12.0 0 3015
Processing: 0 2 6.1 0 203
Waiting: 0 0 3.0 0 156
Total: 0 4 13.2 0 3046
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 0
66% 0
75% 15
80% 15
90% 15
95% 15
98% 15
99% 15
100% 3046 (longest request)
C:\Internet>ab -n 1000000 -c 1 http://localhost/s/scgi/
Benchmarking localhost (be patient)
Completed 100000 requests
Completed 200000 requests
Completed 300000 requests
Completed 400000 requests
Completed 500000 requests
Completed 600000 requests
Completed 700000 requests
Completed 800000 requests
Completed 900000 requests
Finished 1000000 requests
Server Software: Cherokee/0.5.4
Server Hostname: localhost
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /s/scgi/
Document Length: 693 bytes
Concurrency Level: 1
Time taken for tests: 8875.62500 seconds
Complete requests: 1000000
Failed requests: 5
(Connect: 5, Length: 0, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 803000000 bytes
HTML transferred: 693000000 bytes
Requests per second: 112.68 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 8.875 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 8.875 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 88.36 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 0 6.9 0 2984
Processing: 0 8 8.1 15 281
Waiting: 0 7 8.0 0 281
Total: 0 8 10.5 15 3031
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 15
66% 15
75% 15
80% 15
90% 15
95% 15
98% 15
99% 31
100% 3031 (longest request)
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