Further lighttpd details

6 Dec 2006

I've previously written that I am trying out lighttpd for serving up my static files, I've now been running lighttpd and apache in parallel for a while and must say the results are very good in favour of lighttpd.

First a graphic to show the change:

This is a capture out of cacti showing the requests per second for some servers. Look at the yellow line, till about 12 it was running Apache 1.x, then I took that server out, around 12:30 I put in a lighttpd server on the same box and enabled stats from it around 13:00. This is on the same hardware, same files etc same IP address and you can clearly see in terms of requests per second lighttpd totally flies compared to Apache on the same box.

The Apache is a stock Debian Apache 1.3.33, I could probably have sped it up by some tuning, but installing lighttpd is much less work and much less painstaking monitoring, tuning, monitoring, tuning.

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Wednesday, December 6, 2006 at 2:25 PM

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