Running test Rails app under JRuby and JBoss - experiences

Based on this article http://blog.saush.com/?p=208 I have created a
simple speed test application to see how JRuby behaves under JAVA
server. I created one controller with simple method that provides actual
time for view. View is RHTML with simple code for publishing the time
provided by controller.

Then a packed the application into WAR(described in article) and
published under JBoss 4.0.5 (on WinXP, 1GB RAM, Centrino Duo 1.8GHz) and
latest JRuby 1.0 . Checking using a browser I can see, the application
is running fine. Then I used ApacheBench to stress the application.

Results seems to be great.
For

ab -n 1000 -c 20 http://localhost/jrails/company/index

… I can get up to 500req/sec . Its unbelievable for me. It leads me to
think if there is any bug/problem I cant see. Can someone help to
understand or do you have some results to compare?


Server Software: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Server Hostname: localhost
Server Port: 8080

Document Path: /jrails/company/index
Document Length: 1135 bytes

Concurrency Level: 20
Time taken for tests: 2.328125 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 19
(Connect: 0, Length: 19, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors: 0
Non-2xx responses: 981
Total transferred: 1451456 bytes
HTML transferred: 1114784 bytes
Requests per second: 429.53 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 46.563 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 2.328 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent
requests)
Transfer rate: 608.64 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 0 2.3 0 15
Processing: 0 44 75.2 31 890
Waiting: 0 43 74.5 31 890
Total: 0 45 75.1 31 890

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 31
66% 31
75% 46
80% 46
90% 78
95% 93
98% 234
99% 406
100% 890 (longest request)

On Jun 8, 2007, at 5:41 AM, David M. wrote:

Failed requests: 19
(Connect: 0, Length: 19, Exceptions: 0)
Write errors: 0
Non-2xx responses: 981

You are not hitting a valid page or its returning an error or
redirect, that is why its so fast, See how 981 are non 2xx responses?
This means that they either failed or just did a redirect.

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