Comments on: Comparing Nginx and HAProxy for web applications

By: Alexander

Alexander — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:33:57 +0000

The server is temporarily down, sorry. Will be back up on Monday.

By: ktulhu

ktulhu — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:15:42 +0000

Link to the raw data here is broken :(

By: wan optimization

wan optimization — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:15:09 +0000

I’ve found that in our network WAN accelerators have made a big difference

By: Comparing nginx and HAProxy for Web Applications | Open Source H/A

Comparing nginx and HAProxy for Web Applications | Open Source H/A — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:55:12 +0000

[...] nice articles comparing nginx and HAProxy are here and here. In a great display of the open source feedback loop, the first article turned up a flaw [...]

By: wtarreau

wtarreau — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:53:24 +0000

For those who have not seen it yet, yes Alexander has benched the new version here : http://affectioncode.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/another-comparison-of-haproxy-and-nginx/

And yes, it dramatically improves the results :-)

By: asim

asim — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:44:23 +0000

Have you benched the patched version?

I’m very curious as to your config and how it fairs.

By: wtarreau

wtarreau — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:08:22 +0000

Thanks guys. BTW, the bug is now fixed in 1.3.15.2. I’m impatient to see the new benchmark under same conditions. To be honnest, I would not be surprized if the lower response times increased due to the amount of unserved requests in the previous test.

By: steve

steve — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:05:34 +0000

haproxy is awesome. i haven’t tried nginx yet, but was looking to try it and stumbled across this comparison. definitely excited that willy found an issue that will make the haproxy code even better. great job willy – haproxy is a wonderful product. thanks for the benchmark alexander, it was definitely nice to see.

By: Ilya Grigorik

Ilya Grigorik — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 00:45:04 +0000

Alexander, thanks a lot for the great writeup. Lots of juicy data, and a bug fix coming out of it! Looking forward to seeing the benchmarks after this is patched. (Go Willy go!)

By: Alexander Staubo

Alexander Staubo — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:31:11 +0000

That’s good news! Thanks for spending time on this.

For future benchmarks I will monitor CPU and I/O. I think you’re right that the periodic blips indicate garbage collection or something else building up steam.

I would also try benchmarking Nginx in round-robin mode to compare the performance with the fair load balancer patch.