This is by no means a comprehensive test. It was done a laptop with a dump of Google's homepage as the content. Performance data was generated using 10000 connections to localhost using `httperf'. If you see any glaring holes though, please point them out. Cheers!
- Node.js / node-spdy / Express.js: avg 139.1
- Nginx / SPDY -> Node.js / Express.js: avg 150.1
- Nginx / SPDY: avg 231.3
The node test was used running node-spdy and express on Node.js v0.10.20.
var spdy = require('spdy');
var express = require('express');
var fs = require('fs');
var options = {
key: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/server.key'),
cert: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/server.crt'),
ca: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/server.csr'),
windowSize: 1024
};
var app = express();
app.use(express.logger());
app.get('/', function(req,res) {
fs.readFile(__dirname+'/google.html', function(err, data) {
if (err) {
console.trace(err);
res.send(500);
} else {
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');
res.setHeader('Content-Length', data.length);
res.end(data);
}
});
});
var server = spdy.createServer(options, app);
server.listen(8443);httperf --client=0/1 --server=localhost --port=8443 --uri=/ --send-buffer=4096 --recv-buffer=16384 --ssl --ssl-no-reuse --num-conns=10000 --num-calls=1
httperf: warning: open file limit > FD_SETSIZE; limiting max. # of open files to FD_SETSIZE
Maximum connect burst length: 1
Total: connections 10000 requests 10000 replies 10000 test-duration 71.998 s
Connection rate: 138.9 conn/s (7.2 ms/conn, <=1 concurrent connections)
Connection time [ms]: min 6.1 avg 7.2 max 60.1 median 6.5 stddev 1.6
Connection time [ms]: connect 5.8
Connection length [replies/conn]: 1.000
Request rate: 138.9 req/s (7.2 ms/req)
Request size [B]: 62.0
Reply rate [replies/s]: min 119.4 avg 139.1 max 145.0 stddev 6.8 (14 samples)
Reply time [ms]: response 1.3 transfer 0.0
Reply size [B]: header 151.0 content 18605.0 footer 0.0 (total 18756.0)
Reply status: 1xx=0 2xx=10000 3xx=0 4xx=0 5xx=0
CPU time [s]: user 24.38 system 47.41 (user 33.9% system 65.9% total 99.7%)
Net I/O: 2552.4 KB/s (20.9*10^6 bps)
Errors: total 0 client-timo 0 socket-timo 0 connrefused 0 connreset 0
Errors: fd-unavail 0 addrunavail 0 ftab-full 0 other 0
Nginx info:
[jmervine@laptop] ~/Development/nginx $ /home/jmervine/tmp/nginx/sbin/nginx -V
nginx version: nginx/1.4.3
built by gcc 4.6.3 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_spdy_module --prefix=/home/jmervine/tmp/nginx
worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /home/jmervine/tmp/nginx/conf/mime.types;
default_type text/html;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
server {
listen 8443 ssl spdy;
server_name localhost;
ssl_certificate /home/jmervine/Development/ssltest/server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /home/jmervine/Development/ssltest/server.key;
location / {
root /home/jmervine/Development/ssltest/;
index google.html;
}
}
}httperf --client=0/1 --server=localhost --port=8443 --uri=/ --send-buffer=4096 --recv-buffer=16384 --ssl --ssl-no-reuse --num-conns=10000 --num-calls=1
httperf: warning: open file limit > FD_SETSIZE; limiting max. # of open files to FD_SETSIZE
Maximum connect burst length: 1
Total: connections 10000 requests 10000 replies 10000 test-duration 43.225 s
Connection rate: 231.3 conn/s (4.3 ms/conn, <=1 concurrent connections)
Connection time [ms]: min 4.0 avg 4.3 max 8.3 median 4.5 stddev 0.6
Connection time [ms]: connect 4.0
Connection length [replies/conn]: 1.000
Request rate: 231.3 req/s (4.3 ms/req)
Request size [B]: 62.0
Reply rate [replies/s]: min 228.6 avg 231.3 max 233.2 stddev 1.3 (8 samples)
Reply time [ms]: response 0.3 transfer 0.0
Reply size [B]: header 240.0 content 18605.0 footer 0.0 (total 18845.0)
Reply status: 1xx=0 2xx=10000 3xx=0 4xx=0 5xx=0
CPU time [s]: user 19.31 system 23.85 (user 44.7% system 55.2% total 99.8%)
Net I/O: 4271.6 KB/s (35.0*10^6 bps)
Errors: total 0 client-timo 0 socket-timo 0 connrefused 0 connreset 0
Errors: fd-unavail 0 addrunavail 0 ftab-full 0 other 0
I ran the test, under the assumption that nginx had already failed and this was going to fail worse. That said, this is the more apples to apples compairison to the first test, as this is closer to what I would really be doing in production. Suprisingly, it was faster then I expected. I can only assume that node's readFile (async) method is more efficent that nginx in reading files off disk, which would be shocking.
var express = require('express');
var fs = require('fs');
var app = express();
app.use(express.logger());
app.get('/', function(req,res) {
fs.readFile(__dirname+'/google.html', function(err, data) {
if (err) {
console.trace(err);
res.send(500);
} else {
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');
res.setHeader('Content-Length', data.length);
res.end(data);
}
});
});
app.listen(8000);worker_processes 1;
events {
worker_connections 1024;
}
http {
include /home/jmervine/tmp/nginx/conf/mime.types;
default_type text/html;
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 65;
server {
listen 8443 ssl spdy;
server_name localhost;
ssl_certificate /home/jmervine/Development/ssltest/server.crt;
ssl_certificate_key /home/jmervine/Development/ssltest/server.key;
location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:8000;
}
}
}httperf --client=0/1 --server=localhost --port=8443 --uri=/ --send-buffer=4096 --recv-buffer=16384 --ssl --ssl-no-reuse --num-conns=10000 --num-calls=1
httperf: warning: open file limit > FD_SETSIZE; limiting max. # of open files to FD_SETSIZE
Maximum connect burst length: 1
Total: connections 10000 requests 10000 replies 10000 test-duration 66.538 s
Connection rate: 150.3 conn/s (6.7 ms/conn, <=1 concurrent connections)
Connection time [ms]: min 4.8 avg 6.6 max 24.6 median 6.5 stddev 1.4
Connection time [ms]: connect 5.2
Connection length [replies/conn]: 1.000
Request rate: 150.3 req/s (6.7 ms/req)
Request size [B]: 62.0
Reply rate [replies/s]: min 141.2 avg 150.1 max 162.2 stddev 6.3 (13 samples)
Reply time [ms]: response 1.3 transfer 0.0
Reply size [B]: header 172.0 content 18605.0 footer 0.0 (total 18777.0)
Reply status: 1xx=0 2xx=10000 3xx=0 4xx=0 5xx=0
CPU time [s]: user 25.99 system 40.27 (user 39.1% system 60.5% total 99.6%)
Net I/O: 2764.9 KB/s (22.7*10^6 bps)
Errors: total 0 client-timo 0 socket-timo 0 connrefused 0 connreset 0
Errors: fd-unavail 0 addrunavail 0 ftab-full 0 other 0
I feel the need to note that I may rerun these tests. When running similar tests with grip compression I got drastically different results. So much so that it makes me suspect these results.