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Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

ashes999 — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 15:50:28 -0000

Hi,

We're having some discussion on the RailsRocket forums about the performance of different web-servers. Have you tried the Thin web-server? How does it compare to the rest?

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Ruby Developers — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 13:58:43 -0000

Aleksey,

I agree, I believe that Thomas meant that enabling the logs on the Lighttpd would make everything run slower than Nginx without the logs. But isn't it obvious? If you want faster then you have to unable the logging features.

Jenn

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

gamer — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:38:43 -0000

Mongrel еще поддерживает фреймверк IOWA

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Aleksey — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:17:04 -0000

Thomas means enabled logs on lighttpd may and probably will make things slower compared to nginx running without logging.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Scoundrel — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 00:39:29 -0000

2Thomas: strange, nginx always has really flexible and pretty convenient logging system.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

TomK32 — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 02:09:26 -0000

There's a little difference in your setup, lighttpd has accesslogs on while nginx doesn't. I guess that should make a bit of a difference, no?

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Matte — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:31:51 -0000

Thanks for your benchmarks! You can also use httperf to get speed tests.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Scoundrel — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:22:21 -0000

2Mark:


$ php -i | grep php.ini
Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc/php5/cli/php.ini

Try such command and you'll see where php tries to find its configs.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Marc — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:58:58 -0000

Another question concerning nginx. Since it has been installed I can not figure out how to set php.ini values such as upload_max_size. Is there a specific way to go about configuring these settings? There is no php.ini file in the path now being reported in phpinfo()

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Scoundrel — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:20:01 -0000

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Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Scoundrel — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:19:39 -0000

2xing: no luck...

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Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

xing — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:30:32 -0000

2Scoundrel: We have fixed the trial form error. Please try to download the enterprise edition trial key once more. Thanks.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Scoundrel — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 13:17:41 -0000

2xing: I would be glad to add your software to next benchmark, but I can't get trial version from your site... there is some error after trial download form... If you want, you can send me archive with trial version by email and I will test it.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

xing — Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:58:20 -0000

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Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Al — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 03:18:22 -0000

Hi,

great blog-entry ;-)

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Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Alexander Solovyov — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 13:55:56 -0000

Хмм... Да, кстати, насчёт keep-alive, заметка на будущее тестирование: статические файлы надо бы сервить отдельно самим фронтендом, без бэк-ендов. Так и быстрее будет, и keep-alive влиять не будет. ;)

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Peter Zaitsev — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 10:56:17 -0000

Как и все удивлен почему FastCGI не тестировался... Касаемо Lighttpd - reverse proxy у него несколько кривой не держит keep-alive что я думаю и является причиной тормозов в данном случае.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Alexander Solovyov — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:34:54 -0000

> I’m not sure exactly what the dummy location for static files does?

There you must define root for cached pages, like:

root /path/to/cache

> Also does this setup automatically serve images, js and css files

No, you must define location like this:

location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|css|js)$ {
root /path/to/static;
}

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Ezra — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:55:01 -0000

Very cool Alexey. I think nginx is my new favorite front for rails apps. I'm not sure exactly what the dummy location for static files does? Can you explain? Also does this setup automatically serve images, js and css files as static if they are in the public dir of the rails app? Or do I need to add a location ~ .js and a location ~ .css, etc... ?

I appreciate your help with this.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Scoundrel — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:40:54 -0000

2Ezra: yeah. You can create such setup for nginx. You can use rewrite module in following way:
<pre>
server {
root /path/to/your/public;

location / {
if (!-f $request_filename.html) {
# your proxy configuration
...
...
}

rewrite (.*) $1.html last;
}

location ~ \.html {
#dummy location for static files
}
}</pre>

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Ezra — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:15:32 -0000

I have another question regarding nginx. Is there a way to set it up for use with rails so that it will first check for static files and then if it doesn not find a file it will invoke the proxy to the backend to get the request? This is how rails page caching works. So if an url like example.com/foo/bar was to be requested, nginx would look for /foo/bar.html and serve it directly if it exists but if not exist it would foreward the request to the proxy backend server? Maybe by using a 404 error handler or something? I would be very interested in gettign a nginx config that has nginx serving all static and page cached files and then forwarding any other requests to a cluster of mongrels via the proxy.

Thanks for mentioning nginx, I have been playiung with it today and I like it very much so far.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Wenix — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:05:02 -0000

Hi,

Just a typo notice:
The title says lihgttpd instead of lighttpd.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

heri — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:17:36 -0000

hello
thanks for this post, i did not knew about nginx.

you might want to chechk out fcgi it is faster than fastcgi

i thought i would use mongrel or lightpd but apache + fcgi was faster (for http://sprinj.com at least)

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

Ezra — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:16:18 -0000

Alexey- would you mind emailing me so we could have a discussion about nginx? I am writing a book about rails deployment and I am very excited to learn of this project. I would love to work with you to get the optimal setup for running rails with nginx/mongrel and nginx/fastcgi. Would you please contact me so we could discuss more? I think you should have my email already from the comment form. Thank you for your time.

Re: High-Performance Ruby On Rails Setups Test: mongrel vs lighttpd vs nginx

kpumuk — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:10:53 -0000

Alexander Borovsky: нет, не забыл. именно dispatcher.fcgi