A single instance of node.js running the sample hello world code from the site will not fare well as it will not be able to use multiple CPUs/Cores. Multiple i

A single instance of node.js running the sample hello world code from the site will not fare well as it will not be able to use multiple CPUs/Cores. Multiple instances need to be run with a load-balancer to make it comparable. In my own previous benchmarks I've found node's performance to be close to Netty's when I ran 20 instances of node behind nginx on a quad core system. I also found that there always was a single request which took several seconds. I suspect this has something to do with nginx/JMeter as I found similar behavior with nginx+php-fpm too.