[Zope] Server Sizing
J. Atwood
Jatwood@bwanazulia.com
Wed, 22 Mar 2000 09:25:57 -0500
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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