Thanks Peter, that at the very least lives up to what people are saying (ZServer alone is your fastest option) Here is another Benchmarking program. http://stein.cshl.org/~lstein/torture/ JMA

From: Peter Sabaini <sabaini@niil.at> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 15:18:59 +0100 (CET) To: zope@zope.org Cc: "J. Atwood" <Jatwood@bwanazulia.com> Subject: Re: [Zope] Server Sizing

here you are! (see end of post)(i hope you dont mind my adressing the list).

btw. does anybody know of other benchmarking software? (i once tried to grab httperf but the ftp site holding the source is down...)

ru, peter.

On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, J. Atwood wrote:

:Peter, : :Have you ever done these test against just the ZServer? : :JMA : :> From: Peter Sabaini <sabaini@niil.at> :> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2000 13:36:17 +0100 (CET) :> To: Stephan Richter <srichter@cbu.edu> :> Cc: zope@zope.org :> Subject: RE: [Zope] Server Sizing :> :> On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Stephan Richter wrote: :> :> :>i agree on apache increasing your performance when serving static :> :>files (for instance images), but wouldn't url rewriting and the proxy :> :>pass module of apache be an even better solution? i just switched from :> :>PCGI to the Rewrite/Proxypass combo because of the additional overhead :> :>of PCGI. :> : :> :Mmmhh, I have to have a look. Okay, I just read the the little tutorial. :> :Does it really speed things up? :> :I guess SSL should not be hard using this solution. I will be thinking :> :about it. :> : :> :Anyone else? :> : :> :> some testing with apache benchmark: :> :> the setup is an apache 1.3.12 sitting on port 1988. :> :> /tstfolder/bmeth is a very simple dtml method ("i am bmeth in :> /tstfolder" <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('testvar', 'hm...')"> :> &dtml-testvar;). :> :> i do 1000 requests at 50 concurrent users, keepalive-connection via :> apache benchmark: :> :> first the result of doing a proxypass to zserver on port 8080: :> :> ------ :> :> /root# /usr/local/apache/bin/ab -n 1000 -c 50 -k -v 2 :> http://druck.kleinezeitung.at:1988/tstfolder/bmeth :> This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3c <$Revision: 1.38 $> apache-1.3 :> Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, :> http://www.zeustech.net/ :> Copyright (c) 1998-1999 The Apache Group, http://www.apache.org/ :> :> Benchmarking druck.kleinezeitung.at (be patient)...INFO: POST header :> == :> --- :> GET /tstfolder/bmeth HTTP/1.0 :> User-Agent: ApacheBench/1.3c :> Connection: Keep-Alive :> Host: druck.kleinezeitung.at :> Accept: */* :> :> :> --- :> Server Software: Zope/Zope :> Server Hostname: druck.kleinezeitung.at :> Server Port: 1988 :> :> Document Path: /tstfolder/bmeth :> Document Length: 25 bytes :> :> Concurrency Level: 50 :> Time taken for tests: 16.817 seconds :> Complete requests: 1000 :> Failed requests: 0 :> Keep-Alive requests: 0 :> Total transferred: 243000 bytes :> HTML transferred: 25000 bytes :> Requests per second: 59.46 :> Transfer rate: 14.45 kb/s received :> :> Connnection Times (ms) :> min avg max :> Connect: 0 1 38 :> Processing: 99 818 877 :> Total: 99 819 915 :> :> ---------------------- :> :> then i modify httpd.conf to get apache to talk to zope via :> PCGI / Zope.cgi (otherwise unchanged): :> :> ----------------------- :> :> /home/Zope# /usr/local/apache/bin/ab -n 1000 -c 50 -k -v 2 :> http://druck.kleinezeitung.at:1988/tstfolder/bmeth :> This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3c <$Revision: 1.38 $> apache-1.3 :> Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, :> http://www.zeustech.net/ :> Copyright (c) 1998-1999 The Apache Group, http://www.apache.org/ :> :> Benchmarking druck.kleinezeitung.at (be patient)...INFO: POST header :> == :> --- :> GET /tstfolder/bmeth HTTP/1.0 :> User-Agent: ApacheBench/1.3c :> Connection: Keep-Alive :> Host: druck.kleinezeitung.at :> Accept: */* :> :> :> --- :> Server Software: Apache/1.3.12 :> Server Hostname: druck.kleinezeitung.at :> Server Port: 1988 :> :> Document Path: /tstfolder/bmeth :> Document Length: 25 bytes :> :> Concurrency Level: 50 :> Time taken for tests: 21.984 seconds :> Complete requests: 1000 :> Failed requests: 0 :> Keep-Alive requests: 1000 :> Total transferred: 273050 bytes :> HTML transferred: 25000 bytes :> Requests per second: 45.49 :> Transfer rate: 12.42 kb/s received :> :> Connnection Times (ms) :> min avg max :> Connect: 0 15 355 :> Processing: 41 1058 6039 :> Total: 41 1073 6394 :> :> -------------------- :> :> :> conclusion: with proxy pass i get around 30% more requests per second :> and around 25% less connection time (and im not able to use keep-alive :> as it seems). :> :> please note that this is only a quick check and not scientific in any :> way, and naturally the benefits will diminish when more complicated :> pages are going to be served. :> :> if there are any other test results please let me know... :> :> peter.

ps.: same test to zserver directly (shows further increase in thoughput):

/root# /usr/local/apache/bin/ab -n 1000 -c 50 -k -v 2 http://druck.kleinezeitung.at:8080/tstfolder/bmeth This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3c <$Revision: 1.38 $> apache-1.3 Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/ Copyright (c) 1998-1999 The Apache Group, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking druck.kleinezeitung.at (be patient)...INFO: POST header == --- GET /tstfolder/bmeth HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: ApacheBench/1.3c Connection: Keep-Alive Host: druck.kleinezeitung.at Accept: */*

--- Server Software: Zope/Zope Server Hostname: druck.kleinezeitung.at Server Port: 8080

Document Path: /tstfolder/bmeth Document Length: 25 bytes

Concurrency Level: 50 Time taken for tests: 14.821 seconds Complete requests: 1000 Failed requests: 0 Keep-Alive requests: 0 Total transferred: 224000 bytes HTML transferred: 25000 bytes Requests per second: 67.47 Transfer rate: 15.11 kb/s received

Connnection Times (ms) min avg max Connect: 0 0 31 Processing: 209 722 734 Total: 209 722 765

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