Top Web Servers Benchmarking with PHP

Benchmarks of Top Web Servers

Below are the results which I have achieved after doing benchmarks on different web servers running on CentOS 5.1 virtual machine with 512MB RAM. I used ab (apache bench), to achieve these results, which requests for a small PHP file (1.6 K) hosted on web server. I used two different techniques for benchmarking i.e. without keep alive, and with keep alive requests. For batter understanding I have displayed the results in form of tables and graphs. Graphs are based on Average Requests Solved per second parameter.

1.      Apache 2.2.3:

 

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	740.34	756.60	739.19	745.38
200	10000	777.88	778.02	772.11	776.00
400	10000	692.86	490.13	440.30	541.10
600	10000	525.15	571.64	660.31	585.70
800	10000	476.27	472.78	484.10	477.72
1000	10000	340.56	158.42	186.97	228.65

Table1.1:  Apache performance results without keep alive requests

 

 

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	780.58	799.61	886.59	822.26
200	10000	763.66	815.17	865.21	814.68
400	10000	577.80	420.69	698.51	565.67
600	10000	506.27	377.25	404.71	429.41
800	10000	227.13	199.83	278.70	235.22
1000	10000	-	-	-	-

Table1.2:  Apache performance results with keep alive requests

2.      Lighttpd 1.4.19:

 

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	1113.14	1067.33	1118.99	1099.82
200	10000	1018.08	931.93	946.17	965.39
400	10000	816.08	836.84	853.73	835.55
600	10000	766.33	820.03	716.18	767.51
800	10000	858.76	884.08	880.22	874.35
1000	10000	889.61	874.02	904.77	889.47

Table2.1:  Lighttpd performance results without keep alive requests

 

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	1360.03	1364.60	1377.87	1367.50
200	10000	1094.21	1046.30	1051.73	1064.08
400	10000	885.78	862.18	905.64	884.53
600	10000	916.88	878.91	855.81	883.87
800	10000	942.03	848.48	904.85	898.45
1000	10000	992.97	989.70	1065.33	1016.00

Table2.2:  Lighttpd performance results with keep alive requests

3.      LiteSpeed 3.3.15:

 

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	1083.96	1104.86	1084.68	1091.17
200	10000	934.25	986.68	1087.72	1002.88
400	10000	1173.74	1197.01	934.30	1101.68
600	10000	1161.28	1086.01	1128.66	1125.32
800	10000	1123.26	1081.17	1082.83	1095.75
1000	10000	1097.85	977.47	953.72	1009.68

Table3.1:  LiteSpeed performance results without keep alive requests

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	1608.41	1229.68	1026.12	1288.07
200	10000	1634.11	1502.02	1208.03	1448.05
400	10000	1496.50	1182.18	1434.65	1371.11
600	10000	1580.57	1485.48	1215.63	1427.23
800	10000	1464.75	1335.91	1358.25	1386.30
1000	10000	1404.39	1390.39	1254.40	1349.73

Table3.2:  LiteSpeed performance results with keep alive requests

 

4.      Sun Java Web Server 7.0.u3:

 

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	828.85	774.11	793.97	798.98
200	10000	858.06	866.53	828.62	851.07
400	10000	1518.30	1274.72	1227.18	1340.07
600	10000	1544.23	1537.93	1536.02	1539.39
800	10000	2027.42	1573.87	1691.52	1764.27
1000	10000	1931.17	1842.84	1684.65	1819.55

Table4.1:  Sun Java Web Server performance results without keep alive requests

 

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	963.69	946.52	1048.39	986.20
200	10000	645.22	919.25	925.51	830.00
400	10000	-	-	-	-
600	10000	-	-	-	-
800	10000	-	-	-	-
1000	10000	-	-	-	-

Table4.2:  Sun Java Web Server performance results with keep alive requests

 

5.      IBM HTTP Server 6.1:

 

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	1446.20	1471.48	1464.06	1460.58
200	10000	1376.51	1269.34	1339.27	1328.37
400	10000	1446.45	1401.83	1436.45	1428.24
600	10000	1313.65	1292.15	1314.46	1306.75
800	10000	1415.10	1346.20	1423.45	1394.92
1000	10000	1282.65	1293.72	1321.53	1299.30

Table5.1:  IBM HTTP Server performance results without keep alive request 

 

Number of Concurrent Requests	Total Requests	Result (Requests per second)
		Run 1	Run 2	Run 3	Average
1	10000	2320.19	2236.10	2259.07	2271.79
200	10000	2108.11	2125.30	2130.00	2121.14
400	10000	2143.50	2135.95	2197.38	2158.94
600	10000	2223.39	2381.46	2305.14	2303.33
800	10000	2226.34	2149.15	2084.19	2153.23
1000	10000	2102.03	2227.93	2204.93	2178.30

Table5.2:  IBM HTTP Server performance results with keep alive requests