Tomcat proxying comparisons. Nginx, mod_proxy_ajp and mod_proxy_http.

Apache mod_proxy_ajp

Server Software:        
Server Hostname:        japp0.labs
Server Port:            81

Document Path:          /aim/account/registration
Document Length:        5391 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   29.054 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      56220000 bytes
HTML transferred:       53910000 bytes
Requests per second:    344.19 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       29.054 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       2.905 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          1889.68 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.4      0      28
Processing:     2   29 117.5     11   10929
Waiting:        2   28 117.4     10   10929
Total:          2   29 117.5     11   10929

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     11
  66%     30
  75%     46
  80%     54
  90%     73
  95%     86
  98%    106
  99%    120
 100%  10929 (longest request)

Apache mod_proxy_http

Server Software:        Apache-Coyote/1.1
Server Hostname:        japp0.labs
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /aim/account/registration
Document Length:        5391 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   31.685 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      56490000 bytes
HTML transferred:       53910000 bytes
Requests per second:    315.61 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       31.685 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       3.168 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          1741.09 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.6      0      29
Processing:     2   31 229.4     10   11149
Waiting:        2   31 229.2     10   11148
Total:          2   32 229.4     11   11149

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     11
  66%     24
  75%     34
  80%     44
  90%     72
  95%     94
  98%    127
  99%    152
 100%  11149 (longest request)

Nginx HttpProxy

Server Software:        nginx
Server Hostname:        japp0.labs
Server Port:            82

Document Path:          /aim/account/registration
Document Length:        5391 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   28.781 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      56440000 bytes
HTML transferred:       53910000 bytes
Requests per second:    347.45 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       28.781 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       2.878 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          1915.07 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.3      0      11
Processing:     3   28  29.8     23     508
Waiting:        3   28  29.8     23     508
Total:          3   29  29.8     24     509

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     24
  66%     26
  75%     28
  80%     29
  90%     36
  95%     60
  98%    126
  99%    177
 100%    509 (longest request)

Tomcat Direct

Server Software:        Apache-Coyote/1.1
Server Hostname:        japp0.labs
Server Port:            8080

Document Path:          /aim/account/registration
Document Length:        5391 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   27.327 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      56490000 bytes
HTML transferred:       53910000 bytes
Requests per second:    365.94 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       27.327 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       2.733 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          2018.73 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.3      0       7
Processing:     2   27  25.9     28    1141
Waiting:        2   27  25.9     27    1140
Total:          2   27  25.9     28    1141

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     28
  66%     40
  75%     44
  80%     47
  90%     55
  95%     64
  98%     78
  99%     88
 100%   1141 (longest request)