[Repoze-dev] Re: Invitation to a dance

[Chris McDonough]

On Sep 28, 2007, at 3:51 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:

> Chris McDonough wrote:
>> On Sep 28, 2007, at 2:45 PM, Jim Fulton wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sep 28, 2007, at 2:08 PM, Tres Seaver wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yes, at the moment (for the standalone case).  Any WSGI server  
>>>> should
>>>> do, but the Zope3 one is more solid than the wsgiutils / paste ones
>>>> seemed to be for our use case.
>>>
>>> How ironic.
>>>
>>> I really really really wish someone would do a WSGI server  
>>> benchmark (set of simple tests) so that people could have a  
>>> better basis for selecting servers.  I really don't want us to be  
>>> in the server business. I really want to see a benchmark that  
>>> proves that ours aren't the best. :) The benchmark doesn't have  
>>> to be perfect. Something that just did some fairly basic obvious  
>>> tests would probably shed a lot of light (and probably spur more  
>>> benchmark development).
>> I think the most commonly used non-Apache server implementations  
>> are probably Paste's "http" server and PasteScript's "wsgiutils"  
>> server.  And maybe one Twisted's but I haven't tried that.
>
> wsgiutils isn't very widely used.  CherryPy is used much more,  
> available in PasteScript#cherrypy -- it's pretty reliably faster  
> than Paste#http.
>

Yup, that clocks in around 2000 req/sec under the same app config.

I'm going to stop cc'ing everybody and take it to http:// 
lists.repoze.org/mailman/listinfo/repoze-dev .  FWIW, this list is  
somewhat high volume now because it is the target for checkin  
messages and bug messages.

- C