[Repoze-dev] Re: Invitation to a dance

[Jim Fulton]

Sorry, I missed the #s. :)

Jim

On Sep 28, 2007, at 3:40 PM, 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.
>
> With this Paste configuration:
>
> [DEFAULT]
> debug = True
>
> [app:test]
> use = egg:Paste#test
>
> [server:paste]
> use = egg:Paste#http
> host = 127.0.0.1
> port = 8080
>
> [server:wsgiutils]
> use = egg:PasteScript#wsgiutils
> host = 127.0.0.1
> port = 8080
>
> [server:zserver]
> use = egg:repoze.zope2#zserver
> host = 127.0.0.1
> port = 8080
>
> And I run (on my MacBook Pro):
>
> ab -n1000 -c10 http://localhost:8080/ against each of the three  
> servers serving up the test app:
>
> egg:Paste#http ~ 1160 req/sec
>
>   bin/paster serve --server-name=paste etc/paste.ini -n test
>
> egg:PasteScript#wsgiutils ~95 req/sec
>
>   bin/paster serve --server-name=wsgiutils etc/paste.ini -n test
>
> egg:repoze.zope2#zserver ~ 1180 req/sec
>
>   bin/paster serve --server-name=zserver etc/paste.ini -n test
>
>
>
>

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Jim Fulton
Zope Corporation