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Using industry standard tool and methodology, Resin Pro web server was put to the test versus Nginx, a popular web server with a reputation for efficiency and performance. Nginx is known to be faster and more reliable under load than the popular Apache HTTPD. Benchmark tests between Resin and Nginx yielded competitive figures, with Resin leading with fewer errors and faster response times. In numerous and varying tests, Resin handled 20% to 25% more load while still outperforming Nginx. In particular, Resin was able to sustain fast response times under extremely heavy load while Nginx performance degraded.
3. NginX 1.2.0 versus Resin
4.0.29 Performance Tests
•The following will be covered:
• Resin validation as the single best solution for web server
and application server
• Tools used in benchmark testing
• httperf
• AutoBench
• Results from performance testing Resin 4.0.29 and NginX
1.2.0
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4. Resin outperforms NginX
•Resin
• Reputation as fast, lightweight and powerful Java
application server
•NginX
• Known to be faster and more reliable under load than
Apache HTTPD
•Benchmark tests between Resin and NginX
• Both yielded competitive figures
• Resin leads testing with:
• Fewer errors
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5. Benchmark Tools
• Industry standard tool and methodology
• Httperf
• httperf is tool produced by HP for measuring web server performance.
The httperf tool supports HTTP/1.1 keepalives and SSL protocols.
• AutoBench
• a tool for automating a comparative benchmark test against two a web
servers.
• Runs httperf against each host.
• Increases the number of requests per seconds on each iteration.
• Delivers output in a format that can be easily consumed by spreadsheet
tools.
• The command autobenchd is used to run a daemon on client machines.
• The autobench_admin command drives many clients to run test at same
time by communicating with autobenchd.
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6. Test Setup Overview
•Configuration
• The only change that was made was the
worker_processes were set to 8 for NginX to improve
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7. Hardware Software Specifications
• Client HW/OS specs:
• i7 4 core / 8 HT, 2.8 GHZ, 8Meg Cache, 8 GB RAM.
• Ubuntu 12 / Linux Kernel 3.2.0-26-generic
• Server HW specs:
• i7 4 core / 8 HT, 2.8 GHZ, 8Meg Cache, 8 GB RAM.
• Ubuntu 12 / Linux Kernel 3.2.0-26-generic
• Test software
• Autobench 2.1.1
• httperf 0.9.0
• Software under test:
• Resin Pro 4.0.29
• nginx 1.2.0
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8. 0K Test - Command Line
Arguments
0k.sh
./admin.sh 300000 2000 20000 1000 0k
admin.sh
autobench_admin
--clients xen:4600,lancre:4600
--uri1 /file_$5.html
--host1 ch_resin --port1 8080
--uri2 /file_$5.html
--host2 ch_nginx --port2 80
--num_conn $1
--num_call 10
--low_rate $2
--high_rate $3
--rate_step $4
--timeout 3
--file out_con$1_start$2_end$3_step$4_$5.tsv
(Above is used to setup 300,000 connections at a rate of 20,000 to 200,000 requests per
second.
Each iteration increases the rate by 10,000 from 20,000 to 200,000.)
0k.html
html>
<body>
<pre></pre>
</body>
</html>
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9. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
0K file - requests per second
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10. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
0K file - Response Time
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11. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
0K file - IO throughput
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12. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
0K file - Errors
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14. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
1K file - requests per second
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15. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
1K file - Response Time
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16. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
1K file - IO throughput
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17. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
1K file - Errors
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18. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
8K file - requests per second
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19. Resin 4.0.29 vs NginX 1.2.0
64K file - requests per second
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20. Links
•www.caucho.com
•blog.caucho.com - Resin vs. NginX
•Resin Java Web Server Outperforms C-based
NginX
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