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Are there any updated benchmarks/feature comparisons between nginx/uWSGI vs. nginx/gunicorn out there?

by Aloisius 14y ago

forsaken 14y ago
The web server doesn't matter. Your app is what will be slow.
- ceol 14y ago
  Personally, I would like to know if this setup is available using gunicorn.
  - chrisguitarguy 14y ago
    It would be very similar, you'd just need supervisord or something similar to run gunicorn for you. There is a pretty complete example of deploying gunicorn + nginx in the docs: http://gunicorn.org/deploy.html http://gunicorn.org/deploy.html
- irahul 14y ago
  So you can serve a production site using Python's wsgiref and SimpleHTTPServer? Servers do matter - memory usage, throughput, error rate, concurrent request handling etc. If the options are to use a faster server, or hunt down your code for bottlenecks, the choice is clear. Even if I modify my code to be faster, a faster server doesn't hurt. This "benchmarks are useless" meme is overdone. "Hello World" benchmarks don't matter, but if a server is significantly faster on my real world application, why would that benchmark be meaningless for me?
mattwdelong 14y ago
I'm actually setting up a new ec2 instance tonight as my current one is set to expire. I currently run DUNG (nginx/gunicorn), perhaps I will run nginx/uWSGI first and compare performance. I will ping you if I get around to it.
kevin1024 14y ago
Your wsgi server is almost never the bottleneck - see this talk by Graham Dumpleton at Pycon - http://youtu.be/Bt2HStzaBzE http://youtu.be/Bt2HStzaBzE
rlander 14y ago
There are benchmarks around [1], though I consider them valuable only for the entertainment value. The great thing about uWSGI/Nginx over Gunicorn/Nginx is that Nginx speaks the uwsi protocol natively[2], whereas with Gunicorn Nginx acts as a proxy. Also, in my experience (2 years with gunicorn, 1 with uwsgi in prod), uwsgi is more stable, uses less memory, has better management and configuration tools and even lets you run multiple Python apps under the same intepreter (multitenancy) [3]. [1] http://www.peterbe.com/plog/fcgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-uwsgi http://www.peterbe.com/plog/fcgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-uwsgi [2] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUwsgiModule http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUwsgiModule [3] http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/TipsAndTricks http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/TipsAndTricks (Edit: formatting)

Are there any updated benchmarks/feature comparisons between nginx/uWSGI vs. nginx/gunicorn out there?

forsaken 14y ago

The web server doesn't matter. Your app is what will be slow.

ceol 14y ago
Personally, I would like to know if this setup is available using gunicorn.
- chrisguitarguy 14y ago
  It would be very similar, you'd just need supervisord or something similar to run gunicorn for you. There is a pretty complete example of deploying gunicorn + nginx in the docs: http://gunicorn.org/deploy.html http://gunicorn.org/deploy.html
irahul 14y ago
So you can serve a production site using Python's wsgiref and SimpleHTTPServer? Servers do matter - memory usage, throughput, error rate, concurrent request handling etc. If the options are to use a faster server, or hunt down your code for bottlenecks, the choice is clear. Even if I modify my code to be faster, a faster server doesn't hurt. This "benchmarks are useless" meme is overdone. "Hello World" benchmarks don't matter, but if a server is significantly faster on my real world application, why would that benchmark be meaningless for me?

mattwdelong 14y ago

I'm actually setting up a new ec2 instance tonight as my current one is set to expire. I currently run DUNG (nginx/gunicorn), perhaps I will run nginx/uWSGI first and compare performance. I will ping you if I get around to it.

kevin1024 14y ago

Your wsgi server is almost never the bottleneck - see this talk by Graham Dumpleton at Pycon - http://youtu.be/Bt2HStzaBzE http://youtu.be/Bt2HStzaBzE

rlander 14y ago

There are benchmarks around [1], though I consider them valuable only for the entertainment value. The great thing about uWSGI/Nginx over Gunicorn/Nginx is that Nginx speaks the uwsi protocol natively[2], whereas with Gunicorn Nginx acts as a proxy. Also, in my experience (2 years with gunicorn, 1 with uwsgi in prod), uwsgi is more stable, uses less memory, has better management and configuration tools and even lets you run multiple Python apps under the same intepreter (multitenancy) [3]. [1] http://www.peterbe.com/plog/fcgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-uwsgi http://www.peterbe.com/plog/fcgi-vs-gunicorn-vs-uwsgi [2] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUwsgiModule http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpUwsgiModule [3] http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/TipsAndTricks http://projects.unbit.it/uwsgi/wiki/TipsAndTricks (Edit: formatting)