WebServer Benchmark - Gatling VS Nginx

Gatling is a high performance web server, developed by this guy. This webserver in my opinion is very light, but very fast. I benchmark against nginx and it runs faster.

I benchmark using Apache Benchmark, at 10 concurrency level. Here's the result:

Gatling

Server Software	Gatling/0.11
Server Hostname	127.0.0.1
Server Port	10080
Document Path	/index.html
Document Length	151 bytes
Concurrency Level	10
Time taken for tests	2.057 seconds
Complete requests	20000
Failed requests	0
Write errors	0
Total transferred	7380000 bytes
HTML transferred	3020000 bytes
Requests per second	9722.32 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request	1.029 [ms] (mean)
Time per request	0.103 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate	3503.45 [Kbytes/sec] received

Here's the Nginx part

Server Software	nginx/0.6.32
Server Hostname	127.0.0.1
Server Port	80
Document Path	/index.html
Document Length	151 bytes
Concurrency Level	10
Time taken for tests	3.938 seconds
Complete requests	20000
Failed requests	0
Write errors	0
Total transferred	7240000 bytes
HTML transferred	3020000 bytes
Requests per second	5078.16 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request	1.969 [ms] (mean)
Time per request	0.197 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate	1795.21 [Kbytes/sec] received

Gatling reach 9722.32 request per second while Nginx only reach 5078.16. I've only benchmark the static pages only, since I still cannot figure out how to Run CGI on Gatling. And Gatling send less HTTP header than Nginx.

Here's gatling response header for a simple GET request

GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 Here you go
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
Server: Gatling/0.11
Content-Length: 10056

..content

And here's the nginx part

GET / HTTP/1.0

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/0.6.32
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:58:17 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 151
Last-Modified: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:39:17 GMT
Connection: close
Accept-Ranges: bytes

I believe this server will add more option besides Nginx and Lighttpd for replacing Apache to serve website. And the small size will be perfect for embedded web server that run on device such as router or switch.

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