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Raspberry Pi as web server benchmarking + taking requests!
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Raspberry Pi as web server benchmarking + taking requests!

littleguylittleguy Member
edited July 2012 in General

Got my Pi the other day and have been doing some quick benchmarks using Apachebench, serving up a PHP Hello World page using different servers:

Just the numbers:

  • Apache - 165.75 requests/s
  • nginx - 151.76 requests/s
  • lighttpd - 180.77 requests/s

If you have something you want me to test on the Pi, just post in this thread!

Thanked by 2NanoG6 Xeoncross

Comments

  • Some other stuff that I have tried:

    • samba with external NTFS drive: Works great, speeds up to 10MB/s.
    • SABnzbd usenet downloader: Works fine, load gets pretty high though.
    • ZNC IRC Bouncer: Works great!
  • jcalebjcaleb Member

    Is there a way to test a wordpress installation?

  • Totally unrelated to the web server part, how good is the Pi at streaming videos? (lets say I want to buy it and attach it to my TV so I can stream hulu or whatnot)

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    Hulu? Forget. Http streams? Excellent

  • I have severe lags while streaming 1080p content via Windows home network with openELEC. Seems to be a software related problem. 720p and DVD resolution works fine.

  • @netomx said: Hulu

    No Flash.

  • @MrLadoodle said: No Flash.

    What do you have against flash?

    Thanked by 1djvdorp
  • @HalfEatenPie said: What do you have against flash?

    Flash does not run on ARM (unless Android).

    Thanked by 1klikli
  • tuxtux Member
    edited July 2012

    @MrLadoodle said: Flash does not run on ARM (unless Android).

    or Nokia N9/N950 with Meego 1.2 Harmattan.

    Thanked by 1klikli
  • @tux said: or Nokia N9/N950 with Meego 1.2 Harmattan.

    Usually its just the same plugin :)

  • littleguylittleguy Member
    edited July 2012

    @jcaleb said: Is there a way to test a wordpress installation?

    Wordpress works fine with mysql (--skip-innodb)

    Is there any particular thing in WP you want benchmarked? Using WP Super Cache with aggressive settings (all pages cached) you can expect about the same amount of requests/s as the Hello World example.

    Edit: Memory usage for the Debian wheezy is:
    Cold boot: ~20MB
    with web server: ~30-50MB
    with web server+mysql: ~80MB

    Thanked by 1jcaleb
  • klikliklikli Member

    Flash also runs on this thing.

  • Someone brought a PlayBook?

    Thanked by 1TheHackBox
  • I hate Blackberry.

  • netomxnetomx Moderator, Veteran

    @MrLadoodle said: No Flash.

    Please re-read my post.

  • Playbooks went into major price crash didnt they? :']

    Thanked by 1netomx
  • earlearl Member

    @eastonch said: Playbooks went into major price crash didnt they? :']

    Tell me about it.. i bought it when it first Came out

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  • @eastonch said: Playbooks went into major price crash didnt they? :']

    Yeah a while ago.

  • earlearl Member
    edited July 2012

    Cheapest I saw was for $150cdn for the 16gb.. not sure how much it is now

  • pcanpcan Member

    A quick update straight from the Raspberry official web site: purchase limitations have been removed. Raspberry Pi is now on the main RS-components web site and can be purchased in any quantity by commercial companies.

    The official Raspbian image has ben released; Raspbian is a Debian Wheezy fork optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. The download link is not on the main Raspberry web site yet, but the torrent link has been published yesterday in the forum/raspbian section of the Rasperry pi official web site. I am testing this new image now; it is a lot more stable and mature than the first Debian image. Also very easy to setup.

    Thanked by 1littleguy
  • littleguylittleguy Member
    edited July 2012

    @pcan said: The official Raspbian image has ben released; Raspbian is a Debian Wheezy fork optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware.

    If I have been running the previously posted Wheezy beta, will I have to do a clean format or can I just apt-get upgrade to get the new release?

  • pcanpcan Member

    @littleguy: A clean format is mandatory. I quote from the Raspberry forum:

    You will continue to get firmware updates etc through apt-get update && apt-get upgrade but if you want to make the jump to hardfloat you'll need to write a new SD card image.

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