stress tests

Some preliminary results, for those who need to backup Rebol in corporate environments. Rebol (especially in fastCGImode on *nix) beats the competition ... I figured this may be nice to know for all of you. We currently have Rebol / Rugby tested by an external party. Part of the routine in a major project with new technology. The first results are promising: an echo function used with Rugby on a dual 1.4 Ghz Athlon with Linux went to 2.5 million reqs in one and a half hour. Roughly 450 / sec. Thumbs up for the non-blocking IO. Keep in mind that Rugby compresses/decompresses all messages and computes a checksum/secure for message integrity, so it is quite a bit of logic itself. We also did a denial of service attack scenario: the OS (Solaris and Linux) is the bottleneck there. Once that stabilizes Rebol nicely returns. People are... impressed. --maarten

Heh, that's cool to know - few questions here: - what is your set-up? I mean - Apache, fast cgi, static, dynamic, external? - what script is launched by Apache? client side of rugby, connecting to already running rugby server/service? - would it have any speed impact (increase), if you wouldn't use checksummed, secured connection? As in my opinion, if external customer reaches your site in https (ssl) mode, you don't imo need encrypted communication on internal lines, or am I wrong? Thanks a lot, -pekr-

On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 21:20:12 +0200 "Maarten Koopmans" <[m--koopmans2--chello--nl]> wrote:

> The first results are promising: an echo function used > with Rugby on a > dual 1.4 Ghz Athlon with Linux went to 2.5 million reqs > in one and a half > hour. Roughly 450 / sec. Thumbs up for the non-blocking > IO. Keep in mind