Comparison between torquebox 2.0.0 + jruby 1.6.7 and nginx+thin+1.9.3mri

nginx + 10 thin instances

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   8.583 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      2117500 bytes
HTML transferred:       2081300 bytes
Requests per second:    11.65 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       858.341 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       85.834 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          240.91 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        1    1   1.7      1       8
Processing:   467  832 259.1    812    1428
Waiting:      462  829 258.9    811    1423
Total:        467  834 259.1    813    1430

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    813
  66%    899
  75%   1034
  80%   1071
  90%   1216
  95%   1374
  98%   1426
  99%   1430
 100%   1430 (longest request)

torquebox

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   17.544 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      2117900 bytes
HTML transferred:       2081300 bytes
Requests per second:    5.70 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       1754.400 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       175.440 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          117.89 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        1    1   1.6      1       8
Processing:   186 1670 284.5   1745    1897
Waiting:      185 1667 284.1   1742    1896
Total:        193 1672 283.3   1746    1897

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%   1746
  66%   1772
  75%   1778
  80%   1784
  90%   1806
  95%   1820
  98%   1844
  99%   1897
 100%   1897 (longest request)