今天用apache的小工具ab测试apache及nginx两个webserver的响应速度。平时总能在网上看到nginx比apache如何如何强的帖子，但自己从来没有测试过。今天有空测试了一下。相同的代码、相同网络状况相同的数据库。
对比情况如下：

apache：
Document Length:        3960 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   0.604543 seconds
Complete requests:      10
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      42400 bytes
HTML transferred:       39600 bytes
Requests per second:    16.54 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       604.543 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       60.454 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          67.82 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        2    2   0.0      2       2
Processing:    22  363 252.5    390     602
Waiting:       21  275 175.3    382     389
Total:         24  365 252.5    392     604

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    392
  66%    598
  75%    602
  80%    602
  90%    604
  95%    604
  98%    604
  99%    604
 100%    604 (longest request)


nginx：
Document Length:        3960 bytes

Concurrency Level:      10
Time taken for tests:   0.104265 seconds
Complete requests:      10
Failed requests:        0
Write errors:           0
Total transferred:      42120 bytes
HTML transferred:       39600 bytes
Requests per second:    95.91 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       104.265 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       10.426 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          393.23 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        9   11   2.1     11      15
Processing:    29   61  21.2     70      88
Waiting:       25   59  21.7     68      87
Total:         38   73  23.0     81     103

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     81
  66%     87
  75%     92
  80%    101
  90%    103
  95%    103
  98%    103
  99%    103
 100%    103 (longest request)


apache：最长响应的时间——604ms  每秒事务数——16.54 [#/sec]   平均事务响应时间——604.543 [ms]   
nginx：最长响应的时间——103ms  每秒事务数——95.91 [#/sec]   平均事务响应时间——104.265 [ms]   

想到过nginx比apache强，但是都是别人说的自己是头一回亲眼见证，这大大的增强了我更换webserver的决心。
至于有人说：apache比起nginx相对安全与稳定就如上面的说法一样，我也是听别人说的。回头自己亲自测试一下。实践方能出真知！



测试命令：
ab -n 10 -c 10 http://www.microsoft.com/

-n:发请求次数
-c:每次发请求的数量（并发concurrency ）