Nonscientific experiment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14590060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14590060 * httpd 2.45.5, default config (prefork),

Nonscientific experiment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14590060 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14590060 * httpd 2.45.5, default config (prefork), peaked at 24 processes and ~8MB RSS each (192MB) => 88k req/sec * nginx 1.10.3, default config, peaked at 8 processed and ~4MB RSS each (32MB) => 199k req/sec * httpd 2.45.5, stripped down mpm_event, peaked at 5 processed 8MB each (40MB) ==> 89k req/sec