Thread: Re: [Mod-security-developers] nginx+modsecurity performance issue
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From: Greg W. <gwr...@ho...> - 2012-12-14 08:10:03
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That is a weird result. Nginx version is certainly not ready for performance testing, but perhaps what is showing here is Apache's superior extensibility model. I would repeat the test with 10 simple header-only rules, that would tell us more what's going on. Greg > Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 14:47:24 +0800 > From: "Tan Feng" <ta...@le...> > Subject: [Mod-security-developers] nginx+modsecurity performance issue > To: <mod...@li...> > Message-ID: <002901cdd37d$8c90e050$a5b2a0f0$@leadsec.com.cn> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > 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 |