Re: [PHP-DEV] EmbPerl, PHP continued... (fwd) From: Andi Gutmans (andi <email protected>)
Date: 11/23/99

If you have time can you also test PHP 4.0 B3? (with --disable-debug)
Available at http://www.php.net/version4

Thanks,

Andi

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 00:25:35 +0800
> From: Robert Locke <rlocke <email protected>>
> To: modperl <email protected>
> Subject: EmbPerl, PHP continued...
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I was looking for some performance data for EmbPerl, PHP, etc. but
> could only find "Hello World"-type tests. So, I decided to add a few
> other tests to the mix and post the results.
>
> These test results are still very crude.
>
> Any feedback/analysis/criticism would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Rob
>
>
> MACHINE:
> Dual Pentium III 500 MHz
> 256 MB RAM
> RedHat 6.0 (Linux 2.2.5-15smp)
>
>
> DATABASE SERVER:
> Postgres 6.5.2
>
>
> WEB SERVERS:
> Apache w/ mod_perl, EmbPerl (using Apache::DBI)
> - Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_perl/1.21
>
> Apache w/ mod_php (using persistent DB connection call)
> - Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) PHP/3.0.12
>
> AOLServer 2.3.3 (supports persistent DB connection)
> - NaviServer/2.0 AOLserver/2.3.3
> - threw this one in just for kicks
>
>
> RELEVANT APACHE SERVER SETTINGS:
> MinSpareServers 20
> MaxSpareServers 35
> StartServers 20
> MaxClients 150
> MaxRequestsPerChild 0
> PerlSetEnv EMBPERL_OPTIONS 8082
> PerlSetEnv EMBPERL_ESCMODE 0
> PerlSetEnv EMBPERL_DEBUG 0
>
>
> TESTS:
> Test 1 - Static HTML
> Test 1(b) - Static HTML with special extension
> Test 2 - Hello World
> Test 3 - Big Print
> Test 4 - Small Database Query
> Test 5 - Big Database Query
>
> Test 1: Static HTML
> - This is a 6K HTML file called "test1.html".
> - No embedded code here.
>
> Test 1(b): Static HTML with extension
> - Identical to the static HTML file in every way
> *except* that extension is changed to ".epl",
> ".php3", or ".adp" according to web server.
> - No embedded code here.
>
> Test 2: Hello World
> - Simple test to print "Hello World".
> - For each of EmbPerl, PHP, AOLServer:
> [+ "Hello World" +]
> <? echo "Hello World" ?>
> <% ns_puts "Hello World" %>
>
> Test 3: Big Print
> - 1000 iterations of incrementally printing "a":
> a
> aa
> aaa
> aaaa
> aaaaa
> aaaaaa
> ...
>
> - As an example: here's the EmbPerl code:
> [-
> for($i=0;$i < 1000;++$i) {
> $a = $a . "a";
> print OUT $a, "<br>";
> }
> -]
>
> - Returned page was approximately 500 K.
>
> Test 4: Small Database Query
> - Fetch and display 1 record from a products database of about 300
> records, searching for an exact match on an indexed field.
> - Returned page was approximately 5K.
> - Used persistent db connection in all cases.
>
> Test 5: Big Database Query
> - Fetch and display 24 records from a product database of about
> 300 records, using a "like" search on a text field.
> - Returned page was approximately 118K.
> - Used persistent db connection in all cases.
>
>
> RESULTS:
>
> - Results are "Requests per second". I'm not sure how to
> interpret the numbers on an absolute scale, but the relative
> comparisons should be somewhat meaningful.
>
> - Each test was conducted 5 times and the average is shown.
>
> - "ab" was used from the same machine as the web servers because
> something "strange" happened when I ran it on another machine.
> (I'll send a separate email regarding this.)
>
>
> 1000 requests, 1 concurrent
> ab -n 1000 -c 1 <URL>
> ----------------------
> Test1 Test1(b) Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apache w/
> modperl/ 852.86 99.53 217.25 16.96 78.12 18.32
> EmbPerl
>
> Apache w/ 836.47 100.06 560.78 16.15 98.76 18.80
> PHP
>
> AOLServer 100.01 99.72 100.06 12.89 156.30 14.29
>
>
>
> 1000 requests, 10 concurrent
> ab -n 1000 -c 10 <URL>
> ----------------------
>
> Test1 Test1(b) Test2 Test3 Test4 Test5
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Apache w/
> modperl/ 890.37 248.00 262.47 30.31 158.50 45.17
> EmbPerl
>
> Apache w/ 957.30 492.55 559.71 23.81 268.34 34.64
> PHP
>
> AOLServer 758.54 227.76 816.65 5.97 141.19 7.45
>
>
> 

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