I've been looking for days to see if someone has done a good, documented, PHP processing speed comparison between
and
Why I'm looking: The only test I saw are abount benchmarks, serving full pages or Hello, World -like test, without proper documentation on what exactly was tested. I don't care about the request/seconds, the hardware, but I do need to see what PHP script was tested and with what exact configuration.
Why these two: mod_php was known to be the fastest on processing PHP ( no static files, no request/response measuring, just processing the PHP itself ) but a lot has changed since then, including apache version. Nginx and PHP-FPM eats a lot less memory, so it'd be a good reason to change architecture but if they're not fast enough in this case, the change would be irrelevant.
I know if I'm unable to find one I have to do it myself but I can't believe no one has done a test like this so far :)
I have completed this test on CentOS 6.3 using nginx 1.2.7, apache 2.4.3 and php 5.4.12 all compiled with no changes to default.
./configure
make && make install
With the exception of php where I enabled php-fpm
./configure --enable-fpm
All servers have 100% default config except as noted below. All testing was done on a test server, with no load and a reboot between tests. The server has a Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230, 1GB RAM and 2 x 60GB SSD in RAID 1. Tests were run using ab -n 50000 -c 500 http://127.0.0.1/test.php
Test PHP script:
<?php
$testing = 0;
for ($i = 0; $i < 1000; $i++) {
$testing++;
}
echo $testing;
I also had to enable php in nginx.conf as it's not enabled by default.
location ~ \.php$ {
fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
fastcgi_index index.php;
fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME /var/www/html$fastcgi_script_name;
include fastcgi_params;
}
Nginx - PHP-FPM on 127.0.0.1:9000
Concurrency Level: 500
Time taken for tests: 10.932 seconds
Complete requests: 50000
Failed requests: 336
(Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 336, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors: 0
Non-2xx responses: 336
Total transferred: 7837824 bytes
HTML transferred: 379088 bytes
Requests per second: 4573.83 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 109.317 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.219 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 700.17 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 34 338.5 0 7000
Processing: 0 34 166.5 23 8120
Waiting: 0 34 166.5 23 8120
Total: 13 68 409.2 23 9846
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 23
66% 28
75% 32
80% 33
90% 34
95% 46
98% 61
99% 1030
100% 9846 (longest request)
Nginx - PHP-FPM via socket (config change to fastcgi_pass)
fastcgi_pass unix:/var/lib/php/php.sock;
Concurrency Level: 500
Time taken for tests: 7.054 seconds
Complete requests: 50000
Failed requests: 351
(Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 351, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors: 0
Non-2xx responses: 351
Total transferred: 7846209 bytes
HTML transferred: 387083 bytes
Requests per second: 7087.70 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 70.545 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.141 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 1086.16 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 26 252.5 0 7001
Processing: 0 24 112.9 17 3683
Waiting: 0 24 112.9 17 3683
Total: 7 50 306.4 17 7001
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 17
66% 19
75% 20
80% 21
90% 23
95% 31
98% 55
99% 1019
100% 7001 (longest request)
Apache - mod_php
Concurrency Level: 500
Time taken for tests: 10.979 seconds
Complete requests: 50000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 9800000 bytes
HTML transferred: 200000 bytes
Requests per second: 4554.02 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 109.793 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.220 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 871.67 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 22 230.2 1 7006
Processing: 0 58 426.0 18 9612
Waiting: 0 58 425.9 18 9611
Total: 5 80 523.8 19 10613
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 19
66% 23
75% 25
80% 26
90% 31
95% 36
98% 1012
99% 1889
100% 10613 (longest request)
I'll be more than happy to tune apache further, but it seems apache just can't keep up. The clear winner is nginx with php-fpm via socket.