From: George Moschovitis Date: 2005-01-25T01:45:55+09:00 Subject: Why is webrick sooo slow? Hello everyone, I just finished the first working version of the new abstract rendering pipeline for Nitro. This new pipeline, allows for multiple adaptors (webrick, fastcgi, cgi, modruby, etc) running the same web application. Even though the new pipeline is not yet optimized, I run a benchmark to compare webrick's performance vs fastcgi. I was quite shocked to see the following results on my trusty old laptop: $ ab -n 200 -c 5 localhost/index lighttpd/fastcgi: 175.22 requests/sec webrick: 29.02 requests/sec I find this performance delta rather suprising. On the topic of fastcgi, I always had the following question: Isn't an apache-fastcgi-rubyserver configuration equivalent to an apache-mod_proxy-rubyserver configuration? regards, George.