I found that forum thread quite hard to follow, and there are blobs of ab runs sprinkled all over. I clicked a few pages through, and didn't see any configs pos

I found that forum thread quite hard to follow, and there are blobs of ab runs sprinkled all over. I clicked a few pages through, and didn't see any configs posted, sysctl values, etc. Was it more of an ad-hoc test you were running just to get some vague ideas about performance, as apposed to a comprehensive performance comparison? My personal (anecdotal) experience shows that nginx is amazingly fast. Some nginx configs can impact performance if you aren't careful (I am thinking of try_files vs if-tests[1]), and there are various nginx tunables (worker process count, cpu affinity, etc) as well. I have personally seen issues with apachebench when there are lots of connections (not to mention linux system tunables such as max file descriptors!), iptables state tracking, etc... [1]: http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil http://wiki.nginx.org/IfIsEvil