From: khaines@...
Date: 2007-09-15T08:27:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Camping or Merb

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007, Jeff Barczewski wrote:

> If you need SSL, then I believe you will need something like nginx (apache,
> lighttpd, pound, etc) to handle the certificates. Also I doubt that you will
> beat the speed of nginx for serving static content, so that would also be a
> consideration.

Apologies for the back to back posts.  On static file handling, you are 
right.  nginx is about as fast as it gets.  But that's fine.  Swiftiply's 
static file handling doesn't have to be that fast to be fast enough.  My 
target range is 8000 to 9000 small static files per second, and at least 
100 megabytes per second of data transfer for large static files, on my 
test machine.  That is the area the threshold that I am working to 
continue to meet or beat as I work on Swiftiply.  It's not nginx speeds, 
but it's better than Apache speeds (out of a single process, too), and 
it's fast enough to saturate a gigabit port if one is doing big files, and 
a 100mbs port if one is doing small files, so it's fast enough for the 
vast majority of deployments.


Kirk Haines