Reply to post: Re: Lightweight?

Re: Lightweight?

"Can it serve hundreds of http: connections in a live environment?"

ApacheBench fired against the web interface of a Pi running XBMC (so yes, it's running a 3D accelerated UI at the same time as this test).

Short of it, over 1000 requests, it handled 50 concurrent connections without error, 75 caused error (on the last 12 requests) so I have no doubt a well configured Pi could handle 75-100 concurrent connections. Even so, 3 Pi's in a 2x WWW and 1x NLB setup would easily achieve 100 concurrent connections and still in <1GB RAM and <£100.

As you can probably tell, I think Pis are awesome.

# ab -n 1000 -c 50 http://xbmc-002/

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>

Benchmarking xbmc-002 (be patient)

Finished 1000 requests

Time taken for tests: 3.236 seconds

Complete requests: 1000

Failed requests: 0

Write errors: 0

Requests per second: 309.00 [#/sec] (mean)

Time per request: 161.812 [ms] (mean)

Time per request: 3.236 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)

Transfer rate: 42.25 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)

min mean[+/-sd] median max

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)

50% 68

66% 72

75% 76

80% 80

90% 95

95% 300

98% 1073

99% 1082

100% 3003 (longest request)