[Mod-security-developers] nginx+modsecurity performance issue

[Tan F. <ta...@le...>]

 

We  just had a simple throughput test for modsecurity comparing between
Apache and Nginx, 

the result is as following, which is frustrate me much and hard to explain:

 

 

Apache+modsecurity(engine enabled with *empty* rules) :  517Mbps

 

 

Nginx+modsecurity(engine enabled with *empty* rules) :  131Mbps

 

(Both are conducted with Avalanche box with a big web page of 32kB, working
in exactly the same reverse proxy mode)

 

 

Anyone can tell me why Nginx+modsecurity has a so poor performance?  

 (When modsecuriyty engine is disabled, Nginx will outperform Apache much
much)

 

 

 

 

Felix Tan