Benchmarking Joyent Smart Platform and Node.js

benchmark

ab -n 1000 -c 50 http://127.0.0.1:8080/

helloworld-node.js

var http = require('http');

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  
    res.sendHeader(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
    res.sendBody('Hello World');
    res.finish();
    
}).listen(8000);

helloworld-smart.js

function main( aRequest ) {
  return "Hello World";
}

results-node

Concurrency Level:      50
Time taken for tests:   0.211 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      113000 bytes
HTML transferred:       21000 bytes
Requests per second:    4743.61 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       10.540 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.211 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          523.46 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   0.6      0      10
Processing:     2    9   3.6      8      25
Waiting:        2    9   3.4      8      25
Total:          3   10   3.4      9      25
WARNING: The median and mean for the initial connection time are not within a normal deviation
        These results are probably not that reliable.

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%      9
  66%      9
  75%     10
  80%     13
  90%     14
  95%     16
  98%     18
  99%     25
 100%     25 (longest request)

results-smart

Concurrency Level:      50
Time taken for tests:   5.640 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      131000 bytes
HTML transferred:       11000 bytes
Requests per second:    177.30 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       282.009 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       5.640 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          22.68 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   3.6      0      78
Processing:    13  275  99.0    254     699
Waiting:       13  262  86.4    250     629
Total:         14  276  99.0    254     699

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    254
  66%    281
  75%    310
  80%    334
  90%    410
  95%    488
  98%    564
  99%    607
 100%    699 (longest request)