Looking for a high performance web server written in Python, and supports CGI/FastCGI

[fumanchu]

Jack wrote:
> I wrote the last posting at late late night and I didn't know what I was
> typing at that time ;-p
>
> I didn't mean the test with CherryPy was not concurrent
> connections, or the test with lighttpd was all concurrent
> connections. I actually tried both concurrent (-c in ab command line)
> and non-concurrent (without -c in ab command line) and I tried
> the threading and threadpooling in CherryPy. The result did not
> vary much.
>
> This article http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPySpeed says CherryPy
> can process around 400-500 requests/second. It's set up is:
>
>   Pentium M 1.6, 1G RAM, Windows XP2 laptop, test done with apache 2.0.41
> ab.
>
> I have a slightly better hardware set up:
>
>   Pentium M 1.7MHz, 1.5G RAM on Windows XP2 laptop, test done with Apache
> 2.2 ab
>
> However, I don't get even close. The best I get is around 140
> requests/second. I'm using the same test script as the CherryPy test
> with slight modification just to make it run. As a matter of fact,
> the Cygwin build of lighttpd only gets around 430 requests/second for
> a 2-byte static file. I disabled firewall and antivirus on the box when
> tests were done. Any idea about the huge difference? It would be very
> interesting if some CherryPy (or python) users can post their performance
> benchmarks.

It would be good to know which version of CherryPy you are using. That
wiki page is talking about the CP 2.0 branch; 2.1 and later are quite
different. If you have a later version, try using
cherrypy/test/benchmark.py

Note also that you can use lighttpd as an HTTP server for CherryPy apps
via FCGI/SCGI.


Robert Brewer
System Architect
Amor Ministries
fumanchu at amor.org