bench.txt

Prefork experiment benchmark (windows)

- code at https://github.com/joyent/libuv/tree/8afa067ad658ae59f64063d3630f36d65d094707
- uses libuv
- fork N child processes.
- accept as fast as possible
- write "HTTP 1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: 12\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\nhello world\n",
  then close from the write callback
- uv_tcp_t and uv_write_t are malloc'ed every time
- benchmark was run on the Microsoft bench cluster with `bench 200 7` and 4 client machines

+---------+--------+
| # forks |  r/s   |
+---------+--------+
|    0    |  15639 |
|    1    |  23848 |
|    2    |  32025 |
|    3    |  36627 |
|    4    |  38159 |
|    5    |        |
|    6    |        |
|    7    |  43948 |
+---------+--------+

0 16514
1 24633
2 29986
3 29767