Re: [tlug] Re: [RFC] Outline of the fast HTTP talk

[Edward Middleton <emiddleton@example.com>]

Curt Sampson wrote:
> On 2008-11-03 18:56 +0000 (Mon), John Fremlin wrote:
>   
>> I get about 2k requests per second on one core of my laptop with the
>> following mongrel script....
>>
>> Are you in that ballpark? 
>>     
>
> Well, I've not benchmarked recently, but last time I checked, we were
> handling more than 500 requests per second on a 700 MHz Pentium II, so
> I'd say, yes we certainly are. Probably, given that on a multi-core
> machine we can distribute the load amongst multiple back-ends, we're
> faster. (Or does mongrel have the capability to use multiple processes?)
>   

My varnish server is Celeron 1.8GHz with 2G of ram.  I would be
interested in running any benchmarks you have against this server, for
comparison.

Edward