Flarum Stress test with Nginx + Php-fpm

Kulga

I thought I'd run some tests on my flarum install. Results may vary.
Parameters:

Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool - ab
Nginx
Php5-fpm with ondemand pool with 4 max children just for flarum to serve php requests (to minimize interfering with other parts of the server and other requests)

I'm sitting at 90MB of memory with a debian 7 install

A initial visit takes 4s (lot of *.js loading)
A refresh (F5) takes 1.36sec
A reload (clicking on logo or clicking refresh button) takes 222ms
A page visit takes 240ms
A single isolated request to a page called up a single 12MB php-fpm process
1000 connections (50 concurrent) calls up the other 3 processes (12mb each) with these connection times (doubling max children didn't greatly help this)

ab -n 1000 -c 50 link

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 41 137 118.4 89 1289
Processing: 257 1502 383.0 1444 3967
Waiting: 251 1484 366.7 1434 2702
Total: 495 1639 341.1 1549 4123

Attempt to pull a page while this is going on (in a separate test) 1.24s

This doesn't simulate a real world load scenario but it's certainly promising!

Franz

Kulga A page visit takes 240ms

I like that part a lot.
Oh, the joys of single-page applications. 🙂

Wombat

Nice! 50 concurrent calls is quite a lot actually. Looking good.

Kulga

I optimized the server a little bit more and enabled opcache
I also wanted to stay within the realm of the cheapest node ramnode has (128MB)
Server sitting at 73MB

ab -n 1000 -c 30 http://www.singularidea.org/d/2-info
-n == max connections -c == concurrent connections

Cache size of flarum scripts - 7MB (wow!)
Page visit - 180ms (average)
With stress test - 700ms (average)
During stress test my memory stayed below 120MB (optimized max children of php5-fpm)

For reference, a blink is supposed to be around 100-150ms

Wombat

Kulga 30 concurrent connections with only 73mb? That's amazing <3

Kulga

Wombat Almost 😛 That was the resting MB usage. It jumped to about 120MB during the test.
It's also just a single connection (so I don't know how valid it is, I'll need a actual popular forum to test that lol)
-- But it's a indicator you can run a popular forum with a extremely bare bone VPS.

Kulga

Additionally, here's some visualizations of RAM usage by flarums scripts

Main
main

Extensions

fakruzaruret

can This test is be applicable for V1.0.0.

How can we compare 6 years 🙂 ?

Kulga

This is quite a old thread with my last response being 6 years ago
But! I still have and use the same VPS I ran this test on haha