<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="modpython.css" type='text/css' /> <link rel="first" href="modpython.html" title='Mod_python Manual' /> <link rel='contents' href='contents.html' title="Contents" /> <link rel='index' href='genindex.html' title='Index' /> <link rel='last' href='about.html' title='About this document...' /> <link rel='help' href='about.html' title='About this document...' /> <link rel="next" href="intr-flexibility.html" /> <link rel="prev" href="introduction.html" /> <link rel="parent" href="introduction.html" /> <link rel="next" href="intr-flexibility.html" /> <meta name='aesop' content='information' /> <title>1.1 Performance</title> </head> <body> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <div id='top-navigation-panel' xml:id='top-navigation-panel'> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="1. Introduction" href="introduction.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="1. Introduction" href="introduction.html"><img src='up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up One Level' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="1.2 Flexibility" href="intr-flexibility.html"><img src='next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Mod_python Manual</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="index" title="Index" href="genindex.html"><img src='index.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Index' width='32' /></A></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="introduction.html">1. Introduction</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="introduction.html">1. Introduction</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="intr-flexibility.html">1.2 Flexibility</A> </div> <hr /></div> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION003100000000000000000"></A><A NAME="intr-performance"></A> <BR> 1.1 Performance </H1> <P> One of the main advantages of mod_python is the increase in performance over traditional CGI. Below are results of a very crude test. The test was done on a 1.2GHz Pentium machine running Red Hat Linux 7.3. <em class="citetitle"><a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/programs/ab.html" title="Ab" >Ab</a></em> was used to poll 4 kinds of scripts, all of which imported the standard cgi module (because this is how a typical Python cgi script begins), then output a single word "<tt class="samp">Hello!</tt>". The results are based on 10000 requests with concurrency of 1. <P> <div class="verbatim"><pre> Standard CGI: 23 requests/s Mod_python cgihandler: 385 requests/s Mod_python publisher: 476 requests/s Mod_python handler: 1203 requests/s </pre></div> <P> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <div class='online-navigation'> <p></p><hr /> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="1. Introduction" href="introduction.html"><img src='previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="1. Introduction" href="introduction.html"><img src='up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up One Level' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="1.2 Flexibility" href="intr-flexibility.html"><img src='next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Mod_python Manual</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><img src='blank.png' border='0' height='32' alt='' width='32' /></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="index" title="Index" href="genindex.html"><img src='index.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Index' width='32' /></A></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="introduction.html">1. Introduction</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="introduction.html">1. Introduction</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="intr-flexibility.html">1.2 Flexibility</A> </div> </div> <hr /> <span class="release-info">Release 3.3.1, documentation updated on January 29, 2007.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> </BODY> </HTML>