From: Sascha Ebach <se@...>
Date: 2006-01-21T21:37:27+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mongrel 0.1.1 -- A Fast Ruby Web Server (It Works Now, Maybe)

> One thing, could you do the same test against WEBrick using the 
> examples/webrick_compare.rb script?  Just for my info.  You'll need to > 
> /dev/null the output to make the test more fair.

Alright, here you go.

first Mongrel:

ab.exe -S -n 10000 http://localhost:3000/test
Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   19.437500 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      520000 bytes
HTML transferred:       70000 bytes
Requests per second:    514.47 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1.944 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       1.944 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          26.08 [Kbytes/sec] received


and WEBrick started with

$ ruby -Ilib examples/webrick_compare.rb 2&>1 /dev/null &

ab.exe -S -n 10000 http://localhost:4000/test
Concurrency Level:      1
Time taken for tests:   118.62500 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      1730000 bytes
HTML transferred:       60000 bytes
Requests per second:    84.70 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       11.806 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       11.806 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          14.31 [Kbytes/sec] received

These results are very promising. I bet if you can manage to make a native 
win32 version the results will double or triple. A 5 times boost will even 
make Cygwin a viable development environment. I suspect that the win32 
version will even be fast enough for production.

-Sascha


PS: With output on the Cygwin/WEBrick combo will drop below 10 req/s on my box.