I should clarify that this AMD machine is a test server, and has CoolnQuiet turned on in the BIOS. So, it reduces its frequency to 1GHz when idle, and goes up to 1.8when busy. I can't remember if the disk has power saving too or not, but that can account for the variance. This is why the last benchmark did 1000 requests in one row, The other factor is MySQL query cache, but again, that would be off at most for the first request, and on for the 999 following it, so it should not be a factor in the last test. Can someone else chip in with other benchmarks to validate my results? On 3/5/07, Robert Douglass <rob@robshouse.net> wrote:
I wonder right off why HEAD's times are so much more level and predictable (smaller standard deviation) than 5's? Especially since my gut feeling is that 5 is much more predictable and regular than 4.7.
Congrats to chx and company for this work... it seems that Drupal 6 will indeed be faster than 5 by virtue of the menu rewrite.
Khalid Baheyeldin wrote:
Here is a better set of data:
HEAD ab2 -n20 http://head.example.com/| <http://head.example.com/%7C> egrep "^Req|^Time"
Time taken for tests: 1.16209 seconds Requests per second: 19.68 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 50.810 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 50.810 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Time taken for tests: 1.11599 seconds Requests per second: 19.77 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 50.580 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 50.580 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Time taken for tests: 1.10162 seconds Requests per second: 19.80 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 50.508 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 50.508 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Time taken for tests: 1.14755 seconds Requests per second: 19.71 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 50.738 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 50.738 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Time taken for tests: 1.11669 seconds Requests per second: 19.77 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 50.583 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 50.583 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
5 ab2 -n20 http://5.example.com/| <http://5.example.com/%7C> egrep "^Req|^Time" Time taken for tests: 2.672659 seconds Requests per second: 7.48 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 133.633 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 133.633 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Time taken for tests: 1.87295 seconds Requests per second: 18.39 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 54.365 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 54.365 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Time taken for tests: 1.55900 seconds Requests per second: 18.94 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 52.795 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 52.795 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Time taken for tests: 0.887638 seconds Requests per second: 22.53 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 44.382 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 44.382 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Time taken for tests: 1.90529 seconds Requests per second: 18.34 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 54.526 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 54.526 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
And here are two tests with 1000 requests each:
ab2 -n1000 http://head.example.com/| <http://head.example.com/%7C> egrep "^Req|^Time" Completed 100 requests Completed 200 requests Completed 300 requests Completed 400 requests Completed 500 requests Completed 600 requests Completed 700 requests Completed 800 requests Completed 900 requests Finished 1000 requests Time taken for tests: 33.209431 seconds Requests per second: 30.11 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 33.209 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 33.209 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
ab2 -n1000 http://5.example.com/| <http://5.example.com/%7C> egrep "^Req|^Time" Completed 100 requests Completed 200 requests Completed 300 requests Completed 400 requests Completed 500 requests Completed 600 requests Completed 700 requests Completed 800 requests Completed 900 requests Finished 1000 requests Time taken for tests: 37.155010 seconds Requests per second: 26.91 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 37.155 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 37.155 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
On 3/4/07, *Khalid Baheyeldin* <kb@2bits.com <mailto:kb@2bits.com>> wrote:
Here are my results.
Drupal 5, is today's checkout, HEAD is also today's checkout.
Used ab2 -n20 http://5.example.com HEAD Requests per second: 19.78 [#/sec] (mean) Requests per second: 23.93 [#/sec] (mean) Requests per second: 19.81 [#/sec] (mean) Requests per second: 19.85 [#/sec] (mean)
Used ab2 -n20 http://head.example.com <http://head.example.com> Drupal 5 Requests per second: 18.58 [#/sec] (mean) Requests per second: 21.73 [#/sec] (mean) Requests per second: 18.35 [#/sec] (mean) Requests per second: 28.12 [#/sec] (mean)
Server is an AMD 64 3000+ with a SATA 7200 Disk with 1GB RAM Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, Apache 2.0.55, MySQL 5.0.24, PHP 5.1.6
On 3/3/07, *Karoly Negyesi* < karoly@negyesi.net <mailto:karoly@negyesi.net>> wrote:
It is there. Please try enabling all core modules in Drupal 5 and bench the front page as anon. Then try the same in Drupal 6-dev.I am really interested in results.
> In particular, we need benchmarking help, soon I will post a simpler version which does a permission check for every menu item. I wonder how bad that is... >
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