Nginx + Django: mod_wsgi vs FastCGI - en
(Translation of my previous post).
Yesterday I have finally sorted out my trouble with compilation of nginx’ mod_wsgi and got it working (how much means slash in our life ;-).
Configuration to get Django application running is quite simple —
django.wsgi, which is used for Apache’s mod_wsgi, fits perfectly. I’ll
not describe all configuration, because code is unstable and needs testing and
is’s contra-indicated to run it on production now.
Lets do the fun — testing. :-) Simple page, 15 queries (PostgreSQL on same pc), 2 workers for nginx (I
have tried 3 and 4 — they both are slighty slower, for 2-4 ms). Two variants of testing queries (ab -n
1000 -c 20 and ab -n 10000 -c 500) and three variants of servers (mod_wsgi,
prefork fastcgi, threaded fastcgi). Hardware (this is not so interesting,
because performance is interesting only in comparison, but why not to show it?)
— Core 2 Duo T7300 and 2 Gb of RAM.
First — ab -n 1000 -c 20 (around of 10-12 runs for every variant):
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mod_wsgitakes 14.2-14.3 ms per query, quite stable performance -
prefork fastcgitakes 12.5-16.5 ms (mostly near of 12 ms, but raises from time to time), eats bigger amount of RAM — I have an xmobar1 showing usage of RAM andmod_wsgihas a two-three percents (percent is 20 megs) lesser usage -
threaded fastcgitakes 24-25 ms per query — it uses only one core of CPU. I have tried to getupstreamworking innginx— it works, but uses only 1 process for some reason :-(
I.e. in most cases for such load FastCGI is slighty faster (and uses somewhat bigger amount of resources). But… lets go further? ;)
Second — ab -n 10000 -c 500 (here I got 3-4 runs for every variant):
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mod_wsgitakes 13-14 ms. Pretty stable result. Each worker consumes 21/15 megs of RAM (VSZ/RSS) -
prefork fastcgitakes 15.5-17 ms per request, but it runs from 40 to 50 serving instances, each consuming 16-20 VSZ (10-13 RSS) megs of RAM! xmobar says that usage raises up to 50% (by leaps, usually around 45-48%) — compare to 33% formod_wsgi! Additional 300 mbytes of RAM. -
threaded fastcgi— most “interesting” variant. With this level of concurrency it just dies. With-c 100— dies. It lives with-c 50with slighty lower speed than with-c 20, but process eats near of 300 mb of VSZ.
What I can say here? Lets wait for stable mod_wsgi release! :-) Thanks, Manlio, for this piece of code. :-)