21 messages in ru.sysoev.nginxRe: Sensible Performance/Growth Strat...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Raina Gustafson | Aug 4, 2010 10:32 am | |
| Hone Watson | Aug 4, 2010 4:52 pm | |
| Raina Gustafson | Aug 5, 2010 8:08 am | |
| Igor Sysoev | Aug 5, 2010 8:39 am | |
| Alex Sergeyev | Aug 5, 2010 9:24 am | |
| Igor Sysoev | Aug 5, 2010 9:36 am | |
| rai...@ultra-secure.de | Aug 5, 2010 9:48 am | |
| Igor Sysoev | Aug 5, 2010 9:54 am | |
| Raina Gustafson | Aug 5, 2010 10:40 am | |
| Rainer Duffner | Aug 5, 2010 11:44 am | |
| Igor Sysoev | Aug 5, 2010 11:51 am | |
| Michael Shadle | Aug 5, 2010 11:55 am | |
| Rainer Duffner | Aug 5, 2010 12:06 pm | |
| Hone Watson | Aug 5, 2010 6:15 pm | |
| Dennis J. | Aug 5, 2010 7:33 pm | |
| Hone Watson | Aug 5, 2010 8:45 pm | |
| khat...@serverorigin.com | Aug 5, 2010 10:31 pm | |
| Ryan Malayter | Aug 6, 2010 4:15 am | |
| Guillaume Filion | Aug 16, 2010 6:00 am | |
| Raina Gustafson | Aug 16, 2010 9:42 am | |
| Michael Shadle | Aug 16, 2010 11:53 am |
| Subject: | Re: Sensible Performance/Growth Strategies? | |
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| From: | Igor Sysoev (ig...@sysoev.ru) | |
| Date: | Aug 5, 2010 9:54:35 am | |
| List: | ru.sysoev.nginx | |
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:49:21PM +0200, rai...@ultra-secure.de wrote:
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:24:23PM -0400, Alex Sergeyev wrote:
varnish relies on OS internals too: it mmap()s a huge file that may be larger tens times physical memory and perfomance relies on how OS flushes modified pages to a disk and how then OS reads them back to memory.
I'm not sure about internals of each project and how they work under Linux vs FreeBSD servers. This could be a decision reason too.
Both Varnish and nginx are developed on FreeBSD.
Recently, we did a test with serving just static files (from a FreeBSD8.1 VM), a very small data-set. nginx0.7 was 1.8 times faster than varnish (both mostly untuned). So, I'd say that OOTB, just serving static files, nginx wins. Though, I still think that varnish has a place and there are probably certain situations where it can beat and will nginx.
What have you set behind Varnish ?
-- Igor Sysoev http://sysoev.ru/en/
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