From: PA <petite.abeille@...>
Date: 2005-04-22T22:36:49+09:00
Subject: Instiki, Webrick & ApacheBench?

Hello,

This being a Friday, I was idly trying to benchmark different little 
web applications, one of them being Instiki [1].

I'm using ApacheBench to simulate 10 clients sending 1000 requests:

% ab -n 1000 -c 10 http://localhost:2500/wiki/show/HomePage
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.73 $> apache-1.3

...
Requests per second:    5.52 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1812.81 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       181.28 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent 
requests)
Transfer rate:          18.35 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0     6  132.3      0  2960
Processing:   872  1794  644.9   1662  6216
Waiting:      871  1794  644.9   1661  6215
Total:        872  1800  655.4   1662  6216
...

Out of the box [2], Instiki manages to handle a bit less than 6 
requests per second... which seems, well, kind of low all things being 
equal :)

What gives? Is such response rate to be expected? Did I mess up 
something?

Thanks in advance for in insights :)

Cheers

--
PA, Onnay Equitursay
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[1] Instiki 0.9.2 on Mac OS X 10.3.9
[2] http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/2599/instiki-0.9.2.dmg