From: Carl Youngblood <carl.youngblood@...>
Date: 2004-08-19T04:28:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [RAILS] way too slow...

In today's world, boxes are cheap.  Development time is what costs
money.  Rails saves money where it matters most.  If your site is
bogged down, just add a few servers to your load-balanced pool.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 04:11:27 +0900, David Morton <mortonda@dgrmm.net> wrote:
> I'm having a heck of a time justifying ruby/rails dues to speed issues.
> 
> I just downloaded rails 0.6, unpacked, changed #! lines to point to my
> path, and then:
> 
> #-------------------------------------------------------------------
> ../script/new_controller test index
> /usr/sbin/ab2 -n 1000 -c 10 http://rails/fcgi/test/index
> ....
> Requests per second:    19.17 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request:       521.568 [ms] (mean)
> #--------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Out of the box, it can't even handle 2 requests per second. (divide by
> 10 fcgi processes running)
> 
> My server is old, but not that old: 1Ghz athlon with 768M RAM
> 
> Serving static requests, I get:
> 
> #---------------------------------------------------------------------
> /usr/sbin/ab2 -n 1000 -c 10 http://www.dgrmm.net/
> 
> Requests per second:    189.65 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request:       52.728 [ms] (mean)
> #---------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> That makes it 10 times slower than static.  Obviously, it will be
> slower, but is this reasonable?  Any ideas on how to make this better?
> 
> I'm running on a mostly pristine Suse 9.1.
> 
>