<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>1.1 Performance</title> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="1.1 Performance"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="modpython"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <link rel="STYLESHEET" href="modpython.css"> <link rel="first" href="modpython.html"> <link rel="contents" href="contents.html" title="Contents"> <link rel="index" href="genindex.html" title="Index"> <LINK REL="next" href="intr-flexibility.html"> <LINK REL="previous" href="introduction.html"> <LINK REL="up" href="introduction.html"> <LINK REL="next" href="intr-flexibility.html"> </head> <body> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A href="introduction.html"><img src="icons/previous.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="introduction.html"><img src="icons/up.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="intr-flexibility.html"><img src="icons/next.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Mod_python Manual</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="icons/contents.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><img src="icons/blank.png" border="0" height="32" alt="" width="32"></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="icons/index.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="introduction.html">1. Introduction</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="introduction.html">1. Introduction</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="intr-flexibility.html">1.2 Flexibility</A> <br><hr> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H1><A NAME="SECTION003100000000000000000"> </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> <dl><dd><pre class="verbatim"> Standard CGI: 23 requests/s Mod_python cgihandler: 385 requests/s Mod_python publisher: 476 requests/s Mod_python handler: 1203 requests/s </pre></dl> <P> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <p><hr> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td><A href="introduction.html"><img src="icons/previous.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Previous Page" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="introduction.html"><img src="icons/up.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Up One Level" width="32"></A></td> <td><A href="intr-flexibility.html"><img src="icons/next.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Next Page" width="32"></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Mod_python Manual</td> <td><A href="contents.html"><img src="icons/contents.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Contents" width="32"></A></td> <td><img src="icons/blank.png" border="0" height="32" alt="" width="32"></td> <td><A href="genindex.html"><img src="icons/index.png" border="0" height="32" alt="Index" width="32"></A></td> </tr></table> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" href="introduction.html">1. Introduction</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" href="introduction.html">1. Introduction</A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" href="intr-flexibility.html">1.2 Flexibility</A> <hr> <span class="release-info">Release 3.1.0a, documentation updated on August 26, 2003.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> </BODY> </HTML>