Recently I received an email pointing me to this article and with a request that I conduct a test of Nginx, which should supposedly be a better web serving application. But in previously mentioned article they state they are getting over a 500% more from the same hardware with a new piece of software, is still awesome. From the experience I know that with such claims, one must utilise some healthy skepticism.
Apache + mod_php compared to Nginx + php-fpm
June 24th, 2009 by Boštjan ŠkufcaHP DL380 G5 drive write cache (BBWC)
June 19th, 2009 by Boštjan ŠkufcaIn one of my previous articles I have written about tools that I use for benchmarking database performance and especially for discovering system bottlenecks. In this article I will show you how large impact on filesystem performance a drive write cache may have.
HP DL360 G4 server
HP and its line of DL servers is very respected [...]
MySQL sql-bench results
June 16th, 2009 by Boštjan ŠkufcaThis is a follow-up article to the MySQL Super Smack benchmark results. Results from sql-bench benchmark suite can easily pinpoint some of the potential system bottlenecks. I find it especially useful for discovering filesystem performance or – better – slowness.
Results
Total execution time is: 562 seconds
# run-all-tests
alter-table: Total time: 8 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr [...]