Re: [Gluster-devel] Re: webservers vs. glusterfs vs. namespace

[Sascha Ottolski]

Am Samstag 19 Januar 2008 21:46:26 schrieb Sascha Ottolski:
> Am Samstag 19 Januar 2008 14:16:31 schrieb Sascha Ottolski:
> > For me, I'm only serving small static image files that live on a
> > gluster mount. And find it strange and unexpected that apache1
> > outperforms apache2, nginx and lighttpd so significantly...
>
> I just found out something, may be this sheds some light on the
> situation: I had "use epoll;" configured for nginx. If comment it
> out, the request/second increase by almost 50%. It's still worse than
> apache, but getting closer after all.

too bad, I need to take this back, I must have mixed something up. after 
more testing I couldn't proof that epoll or not does make a 
difference :-(


> May also be useful: If I disable "sendfile", performance drops again.
> If I configure 4 instead of only 1 workers, performance also drops.

However, this still holds true.


Cheers, Sascha