Performance

ruby-perl is pretty new, not many websites are running it in production yet so there's not much real-world performance data points. We will update this page as we gather more information. please contact us if you have any that you are willing to share.

That said, preliminary results from the lab are promising:

Running on thin:

ab -n 1000 -c 50 http://0.0.0.0:3002/

Server Software:        thin
Server Hostname:        0.0.0.0
Server Port:            3002

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        878 bytes

Concurrency Level:      50
Time taken for tests:   1.648 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      1003000 bytes
HTML transferred:       878000 bytes
Requests per second:    606.82 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       82.397 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       1.648 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          594.37 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    1   0.6      0       5
Processing:    61   81  16.5     79     170
Waiting:       31   51  15.1     48     144
Total:         62   82  16.6     79     170
WARNING: The median and mean for the initial connection time are not within a normal deviation
        These results are probably not that reliable.

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     79
  66%     82
  75%     83
  80%     85
  90%     93
  95%    110
  98%    157
  99%    170
 100%    170 (longest request)

Running on Passenger:

ab -n 1000 -c 50 http://0.0.0.0:3001/

Server Software:        nginx/0.8.54
Server Hostname:        0.0.0.0
Server Port:            3001

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        1723 bytes

Concurrency Level:      50
Time taken for tests:   5.855 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      1929000 bytes
HTML transferred:       1723000 bytes
Requests per second:    170.80 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       292.735 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       5.855 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          321.76 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    2  18.3      0     212
Processing:    13  221 215.5    151    3803
Waiting:       13  218 214.1    143    3803
Total:         14  223 218.0    152    3803

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    152
  66%    237
  75%    286
  80%    321
  90%    465
  95%    625
  98%    793
  99%    847
 100%   3803 (longest request)