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Continuing previous post Lighttp vs Apache2
Now, i’ve done another test Lighttpd vs Nginx using Apache Benchmark

Benchmark parameter

ab -c 300 -n 1000 …

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Nginx + spawn-fcgi
14:31:34 up 9 days, 21:39, 2 users, load average: 18.47, 7.77, 5.68

Server Software: nginx/0.6.35

Document Path: /
Document Length: 22355 bytes

Concurrency Level: 300
Time taken for tests: 45.095 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 120
(Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 120, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors: 0
Non-2xx responses: 119
Total transferred: 19941669 bytes
HTML transferred: 19740333 bytes
Requests per second: 22.18 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 13528.485 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 45.095 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 431.85 [Kbytes/sec] received

Lighttpd + spawn-fcgi
14:47:53 up 9 days, 21:55, 2 users, load average: 21.21, 6.73, 4.57

Server Software: lighttpd/1.4.22

Document Path: /
Document Length: 22388 bytes

Concurrency Level: 300
Time taken for tests: 42.815 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 22599690 bytes
HTML transferred: 22388000 bytes
Requests per second: 23.36 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 12844.583 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 42.815 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 515.47 [Kbytes/sec] received

Conclusion: Lighttpd vs Nginx (Apache Benchmark)

Lighttpd gave me less error and slightly faster.

Nginx consume less resource, with slightly produce more error.
Setting low amount of worker thread will greatly reduce resource usage,
but couldn’t serve high concurrency.

Recommendation:

• Use Nginx for Desktop based server,
• and Lighttpd for Normal server.
• Throw away Apache  :p

Edit:
I found the culprit that cause many errors on nginx was actually the spawn-fcgi parameters.
Nginx itself works smoothly beyond expectation.

I remark the conclusion. Both are great Apache2 replacement.

But, so far…
I coudn’t find a good numbers of childs to spawn and fork.
With nginx, it either crash my server (too high) or many failed requests (too low).

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