Enzo on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 at 12:46 said:

The odd thing when I benchmarked Lighttpd, Lighttpd + Squid, and Lighttpd + Varnish, Lighttpd all by itself turned out to be faster than either reverse proxy plus Lighttpd. I was benchmarking with ab, not sure if that made any difference.

I wasn’t expecting lighttpd by itself to be faster though.

Really? Never heard before.
It’s appreciate if you could give your benchmark results(maybe a link?). Although most benchmark results is just for *reference*, which is not from real life.

BTW: I just have a *feel* that Nginx is faster than Lighttpd in production, according to my experience.

I wasn’t expecting lighttpd by itself to be faster though.

About two weeks ago, I did a simple benchmark on varnish and squid, and wrote this Benchmark Caching of Varnish and Squid post.
Today Willy Tarreau gave me some advise. So I took a short time re-ran this benchmark. Here follows the detail.
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Willy Tarreau on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 at 05:16 said:

Hey, you have saturated your 100 Mbps network, your files were too
big. You should retry either with Gigabit NICs, or with smaller files (far
below 10 kB) to see how each proxy performs. I suspect that they did
not eat much CPU either during the test.

Willy

Yeah, you’re right, that’s a point. The ethernet controller of the proxy server is a bottleneck.
I’m not satisfied with this benchmark result. I’ll re-run when I’ve got time.
Thanks for your advise, and your great HAProxy. :-)

Willy