Thin won out in pretty much every category showing it can handle a larger volume of traffic faster than mongrel can.

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MONGREL

Server Software:        Mongrel
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            3000

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        1184 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   65.020 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      1722107 bytes
HTML transferred:       1184000 bytes
Requests per second:    15.38 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       650.195 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       65.020 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          25.87 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   2.2      0      60
Processing:   290  647  76.9    618     966
Waiting:      174  599  67.2    576     930
Total:        291  648  77.0    618     968

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    618
  66%    675
  75%    695
  80%    704
  90%    750
  95%    795
  98%    866
  99%    896
 100%    968 (longest request)

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THIN

Server Software:        thin
Server Hostname:        127.0.0.1
Server Port:            3000

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        1184 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   53.618 seconds
Complete requests:      1000
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      1685045 bytes
HTML transferred:       1184000 bytes
Requests per second:    18.65 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       536.184 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       53.618 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          30.69 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0    0   0.7      0      17
Processing:    35  534 100.8    512    1115
Waiting:       35  485 110.8    502     879
Total:         36  535 100.9    513    1116

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    513
  66%    549
  75%    570
  80%    577
  90%    657
  95%    710
  98%    799
  99%    880
 100%   1116 (longest request)

I just made a quick rails app to store problems/solutions and index them for later on http://bluefault.com/

Simply add a problem/solution and choose a type and hit submit!

I had over 100 elves… he was being kept alive by clerics and two enchantments … I lost from the timer .

Servly is getting closer and closer to launch, I’ll provide more information as soon as it goes live….

For now I got a camera (finally) for Christmas and started taking some random photos…. I also managed to drop my iPhone… it still works so hopefully I wont have to replace it for a while…

January Random

Let me know if you notice anything broken or borked… just moved the blog to a new server.

Since my last post I’ve added a few new things to my github account… one is a mmorpg rails plugin and another is a server automator for fresh installs to get them production/development ready.

Server Setup Fu

A collection of shell scripts that you run once to setup a bare metal server for development or production.

mmo_fu

A rails plugin to interact with MMO websites like: wow armory, lotro armory, etc.

Servly is also still chugging a long and is going to be offered as SaaS — I’ll post more information about how to sign up once we get closer to launching it.

About 2 years I was on Roadrunner. I loved it; so much so that I always reccomended it to friends and family. Download speeds were blazing fast 10+mbps, sometimes even 15mbps. I moved away to Comcast and feared for the worst (after hearing a lot of bad reviews from them).

Boy have times changed. I’m back home visiting for the holidays and Roadrunner is absolute crap. What was once 10mbps is now a mere 1-4mbps, 4 if I’m LUCKY.

Pinging google:

round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 56.777/171.755/1155.530/229.523 ms

1k 8% packet loss To google.

Honestly I can’t believe how far down hill their service has gone. The cable TV is skippy but the internet is just downright SLOW.

Comcast, on the other hand, usually gives me between 8 and 20mbps consistently with an average upload of 1mbps – compared to Roadrunner’s 400kbps.

While some people have Comcast horror stories, at the moment Comcast is better than RR by far to me. Things like streaming videos (watching SouthPark on Comedy Central’s SP Studios website) or watching Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on Netflix (fallen in love with that BBC series) is painful at best. Low quality from Netflix’s streaming (understandable since the connection is *slow*), and skipping on streaming videos.

Never thought I’d say Comcast was better than Road Runner / TimeWarner, but they are – at least for me.

As a side note: typed this from my shiney new Macbook Pro which I’m in love with. Everything’s nice and snappy.