{"id":202,"date":"2008-09-17T00:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=202"},"modified":"2008-09-17T00:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T00:48:00","slug":"apache-versus-lighttpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/?p=202","title":{"rendered":"Apache versus lighttpd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Both run on the same server: Apache\/2.0.59 (port 80) & lighttpd 1.4.19 (port 8080). 2 tests: dynamic & static files. To make things a little realistic, it’s from a EU client to a US server. <\/p>\n

Serving a dynamic file<\/h4>\n

eu$ ab -n 1000 -c 10 “http:\/\/us.server\/run-some-sql.php”<\/p>\n

\nServer Software:        Apache\nServer Port:            80\nDocument Length:        824 bytes\nTime taken for tests:   36.51463 seconds\nTotal transferred:      1213118 bytes\nHTML transferred:       847886 bytes\nRequests per second:    27.74 [#\/sec] (mean)\nTime per request:       360.515 [ms] (mean)\nTime per request:       36.051 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)\nTransfer rate:          32.84 [Kbytes\/sec] received\n\nConnection Times (ms)\n              min  mean[+\/-sd] median   max\nConnect:      158  158   0.3    158     162\nProcessing:   174  200  26.4    191     340\nWaiting:      173  199  26.3    191     340\nTotal:        332  358  26.4    349     498\n<\/pre>\n
\nServer Software:        lighttpd\/1.4.19\nServer Port:            8080\nDocument Length:        921 bytes\nTime taken for tests:   35.406200 seconds\nTotal transferred:      1202655 bytes\nHTML transferred:       857071 bytes\nRequests per second:    28.24 [#\/sec] (mean)\nTime per request:       354.062 [ms] (mean)\nTime per request:       35.406 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)\nTransfer rate:          33.16 [Kbytes\/sec] received\n\nConnection Times (ms)\n              min  mean[+\/-sd] median   max\nConnect:      158  158   0.6    158     167\nProcessing:   172  193  29.0    183     383\nWaiting:      172  192  29.0    183     383\nTotal:        330  351  29.1    341     541\n<\/pre>\n
Apache: 27.74 requests\/sec
\nLighttpd 28.24 requests\/sec<\/span><\/p>\n
Serving a static file<\/h4>\n
eu$ ab -n 1000 -c 10 “http:\/\/us.server\/img\/some-image.gif”<\/p>\n
\nServer Software:        Apache\nServer Port:            80\nDocument Length:        14781 bytes\nTime taken for tests:   63.858434 seconds\nTotal transferred:      15060000 bytes\nHTML transferred:       14781000 bytes\nRequests per second:    15.66 [#\/sec] (mean)\nTime per request:       638.584 [ms] (mean)\nTime per request:       63.858 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)\nTransfer rate:          230.31 [Kbytes\/sec] received\n\nConnection Times (ms)\n              min  mean[+\/-sd] median   max\nConnect:      157  158   0.5    158     164\nProcessing:   476  478   4.6    478     549\nWaiting:      158  159   4.0    159     228\nTotal:        634  636   4.6    636     707\n<\/pre>\n
\nServer Software:        lighttp\/1.4.19\nServer Port:            8080\nDocument Length:        14781 bytes\nTime taken for tests:   63.736261 seconds\nTotal transferred:      14992000 bytes\nHTML transferred:       14781000 bytes\nRequests per second:    15.69 [#\/sec] (mean)\nTime per request:       637.363 [ms] (mean)\nTime per request:       63.736 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)\nTransfer rate:          229.70 [Kbytes\/sec] received\n\nConnection Times (ms)\n              min  mean[+\/-sd] median   max\nConnect:      157  158   0.4    158     160\nProcessing:   476  478   2.2    478     491\nWaiting:      158  158   1.5    159     166\nTotal:        634  636   2.3    636     649\n<\/pre>\n
Apache 15.66 requests\/sec
\nLighttpd 15.69 requests\/sec<\/span><\/p>\n
Apache is very decent when there is a low concurrency level (about 10-20). When taken into account the stability, features, modules, it’s an excellent choice. Lighttpd under high load although can perform very well, it does suffer from an issue with PHP (current with 1.4.19 and 5.1.6), its backend fast-cgi became overloaded and gave out 500 errors to clients. Bad lighty, or bad PHP! Hope they got it fixed in 1.5 or some future version of PHP<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Both run on the same server: Apache\/2.0.59 (port 80) & lighttpd 1.4.19 (port 8080). 2 tests: dynamic & static files. To make things a little realistic, it’s from a EU client to a US server. Serving a dynamic file eu$ ab -n 1000 -c 10 “http:\/\/us.server\/run-some-sql.php” Server Software: Apache Server Port: 80 Document Length: 824 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.trungson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}