Fast Imaging for Webserver

[Paul McGuire]

On Jan 25, 12:46 am, "Prateek" <sure... at gmail.com> wrote:

> Concurrency Level:      1
> Time taken for tests:   18.664 seconds
> Complete requests:      1000
> Failed requests:        0
> Broken pipe errors:     0
> Total transferred:      14680000 bytes
> HTML transferred:       14417000 bytes
> Requests per second:    53.58 [#/sec] (mean)
> Time per request:       18.66 [ms] (mean)
> Time per request:       18.66 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent
> requests)
> Transfer rate:          786.54 [Kbytes/sec] received
>
> FYI: This request returns a PNG image (image/png) and not html
>
> My understanding is that the problem is either with the CherryPy setup
> (which is likely because even in other cases, i don't get much more
> than 65 requests per second) or PIL itself (even though I'm caching the
> background images and source images)
>
> Does anyone have a better solution? Is there a faster replacement for
> PIL?
>
So you have some gross level statistics on how long a request takes to
process, that's good.  But before you start replacing PIL, or
optimizing CherryPy, or other possible performance-improving efforts,
you should profile the within-request processing, find the bottleneck,
and take care of that first.  Without profiling info, you can easily
spend days optimizing out 90% of a task that takes 2% of the total
processing time, for little net gain.

-- Paul