makiwara
Web server for stress testing of http frontends
Benchmarks
Requests were generated by httpress (https://bitbucket.org/yarosla/httpress/wiki/Home) with parameters -c 500 -n 100000
OS: Ubuntu 12.04.02 x64 on VM under XEN
| web server | with keep-alive | without keep-alive |
| nginx 1.1.19 | 10284 rps, 3685 kbps, 48.6 ms avg req time | 7415 rps, 2621 kbps, 67.4 ms avg req time |
| lighttpd 1.4.28 | 11729 rps, 4468 kbps, 42.6 ms avg req time | 5219 rps, 2079 kbps, 95.8 ms avg req time |
| makiwara | 31784 rps, 8628 kbps, 15.7 ms avg req time | 4090 rps, 1110 kbps, 122.2 ms avg req time |
As you can see makiwara works pretty well with keep-alive connections, not so good without keep-alive connections.
I'm not network programming expert any advices how to improve performance without keep-alives would be highly appreciated.