From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-10-11T21:39:48+09:00
Subject: Re: overhead of WEBrick served http?

Martin Pirker wrote:
> I'm running here a servlet off WEBrick.
> Each request is rendered in xx-xxx request/s time by my code
> (measured exit time-entry time of servlet) 
>
> So res.body is filled with xx-xxx kb html, what I'm wondering
> a) how to best measure the overhead caused by doing also the
>    actual socket stuff/http transport in Ruby (=in WEBrick)
>    = the real requests/s 

Try ApacheBench (ab).

> b) probably someone already compared this to other http server
>    interfaces (fastCGI?), if I do only the request rendering
>    in Ruby and http stuff by pure C server, would this be
>    much faster?

FastCGI is faster (expecially when you use the FastCGI C extension for 
Ruby), not only because of the less amount of work done in ruby, but 
also because you can use multiple ruby processes in parallel instead of 
Ruby threads.

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