500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast
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500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast
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Re: 500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast
#2A comparison with older hardware would have been nice. Also using localhost is not a very good indicator of real-world performance.
Re: 500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast
#3The flipside is that as time goes on, this benchmark becomes less impressive. The server in question had 24GB of RAM and two CPUs with 12 cores each.
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#4I'm interested in more info on your linux TCP tuning, especially how you decided to tcp_tw_recycle and tcp_fin_timeout (and how you decided setting the former to 1 is safe)
Re: 500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast
#5Sigh, another completely synthetic benchmark with big iron:
A dual Intel Xeon X5670 with 24GB of RAM from SoftLayer. The X5670 has 6 cores @ 2.93 GHz, 2 threads per core, /proc/cpuinfo shows 24 CPUs.
Serving a plain HTML page over localhost via nginx. A medium length blog post with pretty much no real-world information.
Re: 500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast
#6Sigh, another completely synthetic benchmark with big iron: A dual Intel Xeon X5670 with 24GB of RAM from SoftLayer. The X5670 has 6 cores @ 2.93 GHz, 2 threads per core, /proc/cpuinfo shows 24 CPUs. Serving a plain HTML page over localhost via nginx. A medium length blog post with pretty much no real-world information.
So it is a pretty obvious link bait for whatever company they are advertising.
Re: 500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast
#7Sigh, another completely synthetic benchmark with big iron: A dual Intel Xeon X5670 with 24GB of RAM from SoftLayer. The X5670 has 6 cores @ 2.93 GHz, 2 threads per core, /proc/cpuinfo shows 24 CPUs. Serving a plain HTML page over localhost via nginx. A medium length blog post with pretty much no real-world information.
nginx was probably using around 20mb ram, too. 24gb is ridiculously unnecessary, but it was probably the least the author could get with the rest of the specs.
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#8In a real world app, I think you'd be considered lucky if the web-server is your bottleneck, rather than your DB or network connection.
Re: 500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast
#9Sigh, another completely synthetic benchmark with big iron: A dual Intel Xeon X5670 with 24GB of RAM from SoftLayer. The X5670 has 6 cores @ 2.93 GHz, 2 threads per core, /proc/cpuinfo shows 24 CPUs. Serving a plain HTML page over localhost via nginx. A medium length blog post with pretty much no real-world information.
That's a commodity 2CPU machine these days, and about a month from being dethroned by the new E5 Xeons.
Serving over multiple 10GE to front end cache servers physically colocated with it would be realistic -- not sure how much of a hit that would be vs. over localhost.
Static vs. dynamic content is a reasonable optimization to make for an application under heavy load.
Re: 500,000 Requests/Sec – Modern HTTP Servers Are Fast
#10Quickly looking over SoftLayer's price sheet, it looks to be a little over $1k a month for Intel 5670 with 24GB of RAM