Benchmarks

Hello,

I'm researching a bit about current options to create a web
application (like everyone else, it seems  where
there are 
real speed constraints. I was quite happy to see the
benchmark[1]
stating more than 500 connections per second, but I couldn't
reproduce that result in my own tests. Using the code below,
the command "ab2 -n 1000 http://localhost:8000/&q
uot; states around
132 requests/second, which is way behind.

[1] http://www
.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPySpeed

Is CherryPy slower since the benchmark was done?

The tested environment is:

  * Processor: Pentium M 1.7 Ghz
  * RAM: 512GB
  * Linux 2.6.12 (Ubuntu)
  * Load testing tool: ab2 from Apache2
  * CherryPy version: 2.2.0beta (SVN Rev. 956)

The code used is:

  import cherrypy
  class Root:
      cherrypy.expose
      def index(self):
          return "OK"
  cherrypy.root = Root()
  cherrypy.config.update({'global': {
          'server.socket_port': 8000,
          'server.log_to_screen': False,
          'server.environment': 'production',
          }})
  cherrypy.server.start()

-- 
Gustavo Niemeyer
http://niemeyer.net