Eduardo Silva Pereira

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

With the past of the years,  you forget details, places and people involved in situations. Today I “tried” to found information about my first speech, and thanks to German Poo which still have published photos of that event I could get some ones. I like to remember when I was a little skinny and younger

In 2001, I began to write a small web server for Linux called Monkey HTTP Daemon, motivated by the idea of learn and create (I’m going to write the full story in a future post…), after a few weeks, it was working (which doesn’t means “stable”) and  after a couple of months it got basic features, so in 2002 I decided to send my proposal to the “3er Encuentro Nacional de Linux” to show the project and share ideas.

As the proposal was accepted, in november of 2002 (28/29 th)  I gave my first speech in the “3er Encuentro Nacional de Linux” in Bio-Bio University, Concepción – Chile, it was a great opportunity to meet nice and geek people with similar interests than me.

On that time my room mates were Franco Catrin and Max Celedon, both friends and geeks.  I still remember when they were playing with their 3D engine: UGS3D, get more info about the project: demo and authors (really youngers!) hehe…

I wasn’t nervious, I felt so relaxed and  “proud” of my presentation made with “Magic Point” and some graphics with “DIA”

“Supposedly” the speech didn’t had to take more than 30 minutes, I get stucked with a problem at the end when I was showing the PHP support, IT WASN’T WORKING! and I tested it a few hours ago, just one word come to my mind on that moment: AFUBIS: A Fuc..ing Bug In the Speech, and that’s really horrible, i got nervious trying to catch the real problem. The problem was the compiled PHP version on that machine (the desktop pc used to show the slides and the project), and magically a student of that university who was helping in the organization asked me if I had another compiled PHP version in some place and I remember that the previous day I was hacking monkey in another pc located in the expositors room. I did a copy of the compiled/installed PHP to my local machine using SCP , I restarted monkey and magically Monkey+PHP works! , I still remember people applauding and laughting after that critical moment, I got relaxed and saying: Thanks GOD !!!.

The whole conference was really good and motivating to continue contributing!!!, thanks “again” to everybody who help to this ex-(young student) six years ago .

Thanks so much to the organization and also to: Franco and Max for record my speech, German Poo for take pictures and giving me for “free” a Debian CD copy! .

Between Nov 21th to 23th, the Open Source 2007event took place in
Chile, it was organized by Inacap Valparaiso.
The audience was from students to business people, a lot of speeches
were made and practical classes about different pieces of software,
every event is a good opportunity to meet new people and enjoy to talk
about open source softwares and related projects. Lot of speakers were
invited to talk about something interesting, I gave a speech about the
OLPC project and I decide to give a second speech about the Summer Of
Code program in order to promote and motivate to the students and let
them know about the program and how to get involved in the open source
world.

A lot of people attend the speech, at the beginning nobody knows what
it’s exactly ‘Summer of code’, they all just know that it’s something
related to Google, I talked about the ‘Hacker culture’, some history
about the open source software and Google.
They started to feel so exciting with the idea to get involved in a OS
project and much more if is through Google.
A lot of directors of the university agree that if someone of their
students become a GSoC student, they can accept that job as a
practical required in they program career. They asked me a lot of
interesting questions, so I hope that next year more Chileans can send
their applications and get a good opportunity to learn and
contribute…