Monkey aim to empower embedded devices but on this time we have benchmarked against a closed source web server named GWan in a Linux x86_64 system.
Monkey is known as a lightweight HTTP web server and stack which hits a huge performance due to it architecture and carefully design. On these benchmarking series we are testing Monkey on different platforms against other web solutions available.
GWan is a free but closed source web application server, it claims to be 3-4x times faster than open sources solutions such as NginX or Lighttpd.
Intel board, some details:
The target HTTP servers are:
The benchmarking tool used is Siege, it uses asyncrhonous sockets to perform the tests so it have a low latency compared with Apache Benchmark, so it provide more accurate results. The test is performed with the following command:
$ siege -b -t10S -c500 http://localhost:PORT/linux.jpgWe set the benchmarking mode and during 10 seconds, Siege will scale up to 500 concurrent clients which will perform as many request as it can over the file linux.jpg (200KB jpeg image).
Monkey have configured and compiled from sources, for GWan we are using the binaries provided in their web site.
After the test over each HTTP server, Siege have provided the following results:
Transactions: 29832 hits Availability: 100.00 % Elapsed time: 9.25 secs Data transferred: 5751.94 MB Response time: 0.15 secs Transaction rate: 3225.08 trans/sec Throughput: 621.83 MB/sec Concurrency: 485.78 Successful transactions: 29832 Failed transactions: 0 Longest transaction: 1.38 Shortest transaction: 0.00
Transactions: 23235 hits Availability: 100.00 % Elapsed time: 9.13 secs Data transferred: 4479.96 MB Response time: 0.19 secs Transaction rate: 2544.91 trans/sec Throughput: 490.69 MB/sec Concurrency: 480.86 Successful transactions: 23235 Failed transactions: 0 Longest transaction: 1.63 Shortest transaction: 0.00
Monkey was capable to serve the linux.jpg file 3225.08 times per second and GWan only 2544.91, that means that Monkey is ~12% faster serving static content than GWan in a Linux x86_64 box.
The test was made in localhost mode, which does not reflect a real internet environment, so under different circumstances re results could be different. The localhost test helps to determinate how the server perform over a high load as it reduces the TCP and networking overhead in general.
