httpsrv_timings.txt

- responding with a file that contains 'Hello World'
- Using latest releases of all benchmarked web servers
- selected because of claims/benchmarks made wrt to their performance/speed
- HTTPSrv is using the same configuration (number of threads, responds with a similar file)
- tried differnet configs. for lhttd but still really slow
- Using a 12 cores node, at 2Ghz, 16GB of RAM (rougly x2 slower than system used in test in that page)
- Except nginx, other web servers tested with default configuration(nginx with default settings ran slower)
- Clearly, g-web claims are valid. Faster by a wide margin than all other HTTP servers in this simple test case
  (except our optimized HTTPSrv, which, though, is built to support a minimal features-set
  and its only real use here is serving static files, and, optionally, resizing images before
  responding to the client)
 
 
 
# nginx 
(with configuration used verbatim from: http://lowlatencyweb.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/500000-requestssec-modern-http-servers-are-fast )
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://localhost:82/index.html
Running 10s test @ http://localhost:82/index.html
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.85s     2.73s    9.81s    57.80%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 1798634 requests in 10.00s, 437.32MB read
Requests/sec: 179895.37



# nginx (default configuration)
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://localhost:82/index.html
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:82/index.html
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.87s     2.86s    9.93s    55.86%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 700801 requests in 10.00s, 573.40MB read
 Socket errors: connect 0, read 0, write 0, timeout 94    # timeouts
Requests/sec:  70099.01

# LighTTPD
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1:83/hello.html
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:83/hello.html
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.72s     2.85s    9.96s    57.02%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 257772 requests in 10.00s, 43.29MB read
Requests/sec:  25780.39


# monkey
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1:2001/hello.html
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:2001/hello.html
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.58s     2.79s    9.84s    57.95%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 1609880 requests in 10.00s, 277.91MB read
 Socket errors: connect 0, read 0, write 0, timeout 867   #timeouts
Requests/sec: 160908.69

# g-wan 
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://localhost:8080/100.html
Running 10s test @ http://localhost:8080/100.html
10 threads and 1000 connections
Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
  Latency     4.47s     2.77s    9.68s    58.05%
  Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
3164990 requests in 10.00s, 793.83MB read
Requests/sec: 316541.64

# nxweb
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1:8055/hello.html
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8055/hello.html
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.58s     2.78s    9.72s    57.74%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 2688534 requests in 10.00s, 571.77MB read
 Socket errors: connect 0, read 0, write 0, timeout 48
Requests/sec: 268928.24

# thttpd
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1:88/hello.html
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:88/hello.html
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.72s     2.89s    9.97s    57.89%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 156669 requests in 10.00s, 36.76MB read
Requests/sec:  15670.66

 # Apache
 ./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1/index.html
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1/index.html
10 threads and 1000 connections
Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
  Latency     4.82s     2.82s    9.90s    58.10%
  Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
620793 requests in 10.00s, 140.42MB read
Socket errors: connect 0, read 16, write 0, timeout 1711  # timeouts and errors
Requests/sec:  62103.30

# YAWS
 ./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1:89/hello.html
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:89/hello.html
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.83s     2.82s    9.90s    58.07%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 274839 requests in 10.00s, 52.16MB read
 Socket errors: connect 0, read 0, write 0, timeout 2505   # timeouts?
Requests/sec:  27488.43

# lwan (https://github.com/lpereira/lwan)
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1:86/hello
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:86/hello
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.65s     2.85s    9.94s    57.73%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 430443 requests in 10.00s, 97.29MB read
Requests/sec:  43062.06

# h2o (https://github.com/h2o/h2o)
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1:87/hello.html
Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.68s     2.81s    9.78s    57.63%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 2025161 requests in 10.00s, 424.90MB read  # lots of read errors, fixed by further tempering w/ configuration
Requests/sec: 202540.34
Transfer/sec:     42.49MB

# Link ( our s/w load balancer, new release soon sometime soon )
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1:8090/hello.html
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:8090/hello.html
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.66s     2.79s    9.74s    57.66%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 2587261 requests in 10.00s, 298.56MB read
Requests/sec: 258741.37


# HTTPSrv (our simple HTTP server)
./wrk -t 10 -c 1000 -R 10m http://127.0.0.1:1027/bpassets/15121_SX256.jpg
Running 10s test @ http://127.0.0.1:1027/bpassets/15121_SX256.jpg
 10 threads and 1000 connections
 Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
   Latency     4.55s     2.77s    9.67s    57.60%
   Req/Sec       -nan      -nan   0.00      0.00%
 3251797 requests in 10.00s, 365.94MB read
Requests/sec: 325250.47

Lwan results are quite weird. Was it built it in Debug (default, passing no parameters to CMake) or Release mode (by passing -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release to CMake)?

Note: gwan is caching every single response. You can test using a file with a higher size