Apache+PHP and Monarch Benchmarks

This benchmark suite is used to benchmark Apache and Monarch to see how the performance profiles look under heavy concurrent load.

The benchmarks require an installation of Apache and a fresh build of Monarch to complete. The benchmarks are designed to run in a Unix environment - Ubuntu, Mac OS X or most other variants. It helps if you run the servers on one machine and the benchmarks from another machine. A fast network connection is also required - 100Mbps is recommended, 1Gbps is ideal.

Monarch Benchmark Source Code

You can get the Monarch Benchmark source code by doing the following commands:

mkdir tmp git clone git://github.com/digitalbazaar/monarch-benchmark.git ./build-setup

Installing and Running Apache

Install Apache2 with the prefork MPM Worker. Install mod-php5 for Apache2.

cd tmp/monarch-benchmark/apache ./apache-start

Building Monarch

You can build Monarch from the source code available via Github:

mkdir tmp git clone git://github.com/digitalbazaar/monarch.git ./build-setup make ./monarch-run pong

Running the Benchmarks

You can run a set of benchmarks by using the bench-url tool in the apache directory.

cd tmp/monarch-benchmark/apache ./bench-url http://URL_TO_BENCHMARK/

By default, the data will be placed into a directory called testdata. You can generate gnuplot graphs by running the following command:

./graph-data testdata

You can view the plots by doing the following:

gnuplot testdata/gnuplot-throughput.plot gnuplot testdata/gnuplot-latency.plot

To benchmark Apache, do this:

./bench-url http://apache-webserver:8001/pong.php mv testdata apache-data ./graph-data apache-data gnuplot apache-data/gnuplot-throughput.plot gnuplot apache-data/gnuplot-latency.plot

To test Monarch, do this:

./bench-url http://monarch-webserver:19500/data/128 mv testdata monarch-data ./graph-data monarch-data gnuplot monarch-data/gnuplot-throughput.plot gnuplot monarch-data/gnuplot-latency.plot