Node HTTP Proxy Benchmark

app.js

var http = require('http');
var port = 1337;

http.createServer(function (req, res) {
  res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'});
  res.end('Hello World\n');
}).listen(port);

console.log('app stared in: %s', port);

/////

app.log

This log output has been taken from following bash command
  ab -c 100 -n 10000 http://localhost:1337/
===========================================================

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)


Server Software:        
Server Hostname:        localhost
Server Port:            1337

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        12 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   2.142 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      760000 bytes
HTML transferred:       120000 bytes
Requests per second:    4669.20 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       21.417 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.214 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          346.54 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    3   3.4      2      19
Processing:     0   19  10.0     19      63
Waiting:        0   17   9.6     17      63
Total:          1   21   9.7     21      63

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     21
  66%     25
  75%     28
  80%     29
  90%     34
  95%     38
  98%     43
  99%     48
 100%     63 (longest request)

proxy.js

var httpProxy = require('http-proxy');
var balancer = httpProxy.createServer(function (req, res, proxy) {

	proxy.proxyRequest(req, res, {
		host: 'localhost',
		port: 1337
	});

});

var port = 8081;
console.log('proxy stared in: %s', port);
balancer.listen(port);

proxy.log

This log output has been taken from following bash command
  ab -c 100 -n 10000 http://localhost:8081/
===========================================================

This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking localhost (be patient)


Server Software:        
Server Hostname:        localhost
Server Port:            8081

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        22 bytes

Concurrency Level:      100
Time taken for tests:   8.768 seconds
Complete requests:      10000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      1140000 bytes
HTML transferred:       220000 bytes
Requests per second:    1140.53 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       87.679 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.877 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          126.97 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   2.0      0      26
Processing:    10   87  19.2     87     152
Waiting:       10   87  19.2     87     151
Total:         11   87  19.0     87     152

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     87
  66%     92
  75%     97
  80%    100
  90%    111
  95%    121
  98%    134
  99%    140
 100%    152 (longest request)

System Info

OS: Ubuntu 10.10
NodeJS: v0.4.10
RAM: 2GB
Processer: Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz

SystemInfo

OS: Ubuntu 10.10
NodeJS: v0.4.10
RAM: 2GB
Processer: Core 2 Duo 2.0 Ghz