Re: [Chicken-users] Spiffy Webserver

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hello Jeremy,

On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:52:04 -0500 Jeremy Cowgar <address@hidden> wrote:

> Anyone have some example sites run w/Spiffy? How robust is Spiffy? I have a
> site that is currently handling ~ 2.5 million hits/mo, or on average 51 a
> second. It's currently backed by MySQL and is using almost no cache due to
> poor design (not totally my fault).
> 
> It's a long story, but the current code base is of almost no value and I am
> contemplating a rewrite. First and foremost with caching at the front line.
> I am thinking of putting something like Spiffy behind Lighttpd and using
> mod_cml, so that the cache system achieves near static html performance. 
> 
> The only thing Spiffy would be responsible for is the dynamic, non-cachable
> items, which should be minimal. I know it's silly, but I do not have hard
> numbers on what that would be, but guessing it would probably be down to
> about 10% of the requests, 222k/mo, or 5 per minute on average (which is a
> bad way to figure because we get 90% of activity during 11am-12pm EST.
> 
> Is Spiffy up to something like this?

Maybe you can simulate a real-world load using a benchmark tool, so
you can get an idea about how Spiffy would react in such a situation.

Httperf (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/) is a good tool
for benchmarking web-servers.

Best wishes,
Mario