Siege-Server

Benchmark Node Server using Siege

Installing Siege on Mac OS X

• Open The Terminal
• Download Siege
  curl -C - -O http://download.joedog.org/siege/siege-latest.tar.gz
• Extract the tarball
  tar -xvf siege-latest.tar.gz
• Change directories to the extracted directory (again, currently siege-2.70)
  cd siege-2.70/
• Run the following commands (one at a time) to build and install siege. If you have an older version of siege read the INSTALL file for more instructions.
  

./configure
make
make install

• Check
  siege
  

Benchmarking with siege

The following sends a 10 requests across 10 concurrent connections for benchmarking (no delay between requests). siege -c 10 -r 10 -b http://localhost:3000/

Results:

Running server without forking

nodemon withoutCluster.js

transaction rate: 454.55 trans/sec

Running server with forking

nodemon withCluster.js

transaction rate: 625 trans/sec

Understanding