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Monkey benchmark, a really fast web server: Part II

April 23rd, 2009 Eduardo Silva 4 comments

Last week I gave a talk about Monkey Project in Flisol 2009 Guayaquil (ESPOL), Ecuador. I presented a new benchmark of Monkey but now comparing the performance on serving static files with another web servers.

The test was made on my laptop Intel Celeron M, 1.6Ghz, 50000 request of a 200KB file with 20 concurrent threads doing the job, the benchmark was performed with Apache Benchmark.

I compiled the latest stable version of Lighttpd and Apache, the test was made 3 times per server and the result for each one is the average.

Monkey handle 1888 request per second versus Lighhtpd with 1716 and Apache with 1544. Obviously this numbers are not perfect but shows the great performance that 0.10.x is having with low memory usage and low cpu consumption, we still have to do a lot of improvements so stay tunned for more news :)

Monkey in Flisol 2009, Guayaquil Ecuador – ESPOL

April 18th, 2009 Eduardo Silva No comments

Some weeks ago, I realized that Flisol in Ecuador will take place on Apr 18th instead of the official date (Apr 25th) due to the presidential elections.

As I’m on vacations in the beautiful city of Guayaquil-Ecuador, I decided to contact the organizer to apply to give a talk, so tomorrow I’ll be talking about the Monkey project… feel free to attend :)

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About last month: Orlando, Hacking and friends/family

September 1st, 2008 Eduardo Silva No comments

Has been one month since my last post on my blog, so let’s resume a little bit about what’s going on:

Traveling

From August 13th to 23th, I went to Orlando, FL USA, it was a business trip (meetings and training) for Oracle. I’m not going to talk about my daily work there, just about the awesome city that Orlando is. Orlando has a tropical weather, is very hot, every day there’s around 30°C as minimum on this summer. If you like to have fun and feel like as where you was younger… you have great places to know as Universal Studios, Sea World or Disney World !!!!.

As I had a few days to stay around there, I decided to buy a ticket for seven days to know the fully Universal Studios, which has two main payed parks called Universal Studios and Universal Adventure.  The first one is related to movies shows/theater as Shrek 4D, The Mum, Terminator, Simsons (Krustyland!), Beattle Juice, Men in Black, JAWS!!!, Twister, etc…..  Sadly I went alone, but it was an amazing experience, I had a lot of fun there, the place is huge and you have a variety of things to do, I took a lot of picture which I’m going to push to facebook…I really got crazy taking pictures, there’s no words to explain how fun a kind of this parks can be, for the next time I would need a smaller camera…

Another place inside the Universal Studios that’s free and you can have have fun and relax for a while is the “City Walk”, a public place with a lake where you can see the famous Universal Studios world symbol, eat something delicious in the Hard Rock Cafe (that place is awesome), enjoy the NBA store, listen live night concerts and others… 100% recomendable!

And for the real adrenaline, the Adventure park, the Hulk roller coaster is awesome!, if you want to feel really scared about your life and screaming you’ve to go there!… the other places are interesting but I prefer the universal studios (movies site)…

New Gadget: IPod Touch

While I was in Orlando, I decide to buy an Ipod Touch for 3 reasons: I like to listen music, cool design and I don’t need to open my laptop anymore just for check my email.

I’ve playing for a while with the podcast stuff, today I’ve subscribed to some podcasts sites, I took some recommended by Franco Catrin on his blog, this is my list:

Hacking Monkey HTTP Daemon

I’ve blog a little bit about the big changes that I’ve been made to Monkey. The last days I’ve been improving the dir_html module which feature I don’t like it but is very useful in some cases, now I’m dealing trying to make it functional in async mode, as you know, the new version which is still under development has a hybrid method to handle connections: threads + polling, more info about this in the next release.

Friends/Family

My wife went to her’s country for vacations, past 3 days when she backs to chile I had to travel to USA, so I miss her a lot, when I back we have hanging out , celebrating hers Brithday! and enjoying different things of Santiago.

This Last saturday I went to Valparaiso to met with my ex-colleagues from High-School!, we did our first meeting after 10 years!!!, it was very fun, we did a cool BBQ with good music and good drinks :D … nobody is so changed, let’s so how are we going to look in 10 years more!

That’s enought for now.. cambio y fuera ;)

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