some AB testing ...

Matt Maier blueback09 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 8 22:46:44 EST 2016


Is that the maximum theoretical value? The actual connections per second
would depend on the size of the data and how much processing it needs,
right?

Also, what is Livecode Application Server?

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 4:04 PM, Pierre Sahores <sc at sahores-conseil.com>
wrote:

> Hi Livecoders,
>
> Story made short : Appart the amazing Lua platform (preferably set as an
> Openresty one), well configured LC application’s servers still outperforms
> anything available around (Websphere, Tomcat, PHP5/7, Perl5, NodeJS, Go,
> Python, RoR,…). In-between, LC application’s server is 60 times faster than
> the stock’s Livecode CGI Server. Using Nginx as the load balancer of the
> same LC app running on clustered front-end servers can make a very reliable
> scalable configuration : 1500 connections for each server added to the
> cluster. In taking care to scale the ACID-SQL backend cluster as attendee,
> the platform can handle very high-end solutions at a fraction of the cost
> of more known main stream proposals.
>
> What the story don’t tell is that the still mono-theaded LC engine don’t
> crashes nor slowdown against heavy loads where Java powered ones does
> (mostly because Java’s heap space shared memory unreliability and the cache
> misconfiguration surprises) and PHP too, because too many unreliable
> frameworks used in front of it (Symphony 2, etc…).
>
> ...
>
>         upstream proxy_cluster {
>
>                 # Test protocol : ab -c 100 -n 5000 http://192.168.1.15/
> #(ApacheBench 2.3 Revision 1528965)
>                 # LC CGI Server = Livecode Server (community and
> commercial editions) MacOSX version 7.1.1
>                 # LC App Server = Livecode commercial standalone MacOSX
> 6.6.5 (note : 7.1.1 35% slower)
>                 # PHP sockets proxy = TCP sockets client proxying REST
> GET/POST requests to LC App Server
>                 # eeePCU = Asus X200CA 1.5 Ghz Ubuntu 14.04 + multi web
> configs on ports 80 to 84 (see below)
>                 # MBPi24 = MacBook Pro i5 2.4 Ghz running Apache 2.4.16 +
> Apache 2.0 Handler + PHP 5.6.17
>                 # MBPi25 = MacBook Pro i5 2.5 Ghz running Apache 2.4.16 +
> Apache 2.0 Handler + PHP 5.6.17
>
>                 #server localhost:80;           # eeePCU : Nginx +
> FCGIWrap + LC CGI Server             -->     25 conn/sec
>                 #server localhost:81;           # eeePCU : OpenLiteSpeed
> CGI + LC CGI Server    -->     25 conn/sec
>                 #server localhost:82;           # eeePCU : Apache 2.4.7
> CGI + LC CGI Server             -->     25 conn/sec
>
>                 #server 192.168.1.21:80;        # MBPi24 : Apache 2.4.16
> CGI + LC CGI Server            -->     25 conn/sec
>                 #server 192.168.1.25:80;        # MBPi25 : Apache 2.4.16
> CGI + LC CGI Server            -->     25 conn/sec
>
>                 #server localhost:80;           # eeePCU : Nginx +
> FCGIWrap + Perl 5.18.2
>                                                                 # + Perl
> sockets proxy --> 192.168.1.25:9578
>                                                                 # --> LC
> 6.6.5 APP Server (MBPi525)                             -->     40 conn/sec
>
>                 #server 192.168.1.21:80;        # MBPi24 : PHP sockets
> proxy + LC APP Server            -->   125 conn/sec
>                 #server 192.168.1.25:80;        # MBPi25 : PHP sockets
> proxy + LC APP Server            -->   125 conn/sec
>                 #server 192.168.1.25:80;        # MBPi25 : FastCGI
> EAppClass + LC APP Server            -->   125 conn/sec
>
>                 #server localhost:84;           # eeePCU : Nginx +
> FMP/FastCGI + PHP 5.5.9              -->   700 conn/sec
>                 #server localhost:82;           # eeePCU : Apache 2.4.7 +
> A 2.0 + PHP 5.5.9             -->   800 conn/sec
>                 #server localhost:81;           # eeePCU : OpenLiteSpeed +
> V6.8 + PHP 5.6.14            --> 1000 conn/sec
>
>                 #server localhost:80;           # eeePCU : Nginx +
> FMP/FastCGI + PHP 5.5.9
>                                                                 # + PHP
> sockets proxy --> 192.168.1.25:9578
>                                                                 # --> LC
> 6.6.5 APP Server (MBPi525)                             --> 1500 conn/sec
>
>                 server localhost:81;                    # eeePCU :
> OpenLiteSpeed + V6.8 + PHP 5.6.14
>                                                                 # + PHP
> sockets proxy --> 192.168.1.21:9578
>                                                                 # --> LC
> 6.6.5 APP Server (MBPi524)                             --> 1500 conn/sec
>
>                 server localhost:82;                    # eeePCU : Apache
> 2.4.7 + A 2.0 + PHP 5.5.9
>                                                                 # + PHP
> sockets proxy --> 192.168.1.25:9578
>                                                                 # --> LC
> 6.6.5 APP Server (MBPi525)                             --> 1500 conn/sec
>
>                 #server localhost:82;           # eeePCU : Apache 2.4.7 +
> mod_lua                               --> 2500 conn/sec
>                 #server localhost:80;           # eeePCU : OpenResty
> 1.9.7.2 + LUAJit 5.1.a             --> 8000 conn/sec
>
>         }
>
> ...
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Pierre Sahores
> mobile : 06 03 95 77 70
> www.sahores-conseil.com
>
>
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