Performance

Beanstalkd - Software - xph.us [distributed, in-memory workqueue service]

http://xph.us/software/beanstalkd/ seems to a rare thing: a message queue server, running as a native code

Watching nginx upstreams with collectd | Be the signal

http://bethesignal.org/blog/2009/07/22/watching-nginx-upstreams-with-collectd/ tells how to monitor nginx by tailing it’s logs using collectd. ( same can also be done with munin)

A Comparison of Open Source Search Engines « zooie’s blog

http://zooie.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/a-comparison-of-open-source-search-engines-and-indexing-twitter/ this is not a strict benchmark, but rather a broad review. Results should be taken as a starting point in research, not as benchmark results.

[RUS] PostgreSQL vs MySQL

http://www.samag.ru/art/07.2007/07.2007_02.html test uses db schema and usage pattern from popular blog-hosting site. Benchmark uses optimized queries

TCP Tuning Guide [Office of Science, DOE, US GOV]

http://fasterdata.es.net/TCP-tuning/ Excellent site provides both theoretical background and practical recommendation for the situation when you need to push limits of TCP links using regular OS and commodity hardware. Especially useful if you need to do it via long-haul fast TCP link, i.e. the situation when you normally use specialized networking hardware (read: cisco)

Introducing NetBSD 5.0

http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html BSD 5.0 release presentation, includes benchmarks: F10 vs FreeBSD 7.x vs NetBSD 4.0 and 5.0 (also see http://lwn.net/Articles/330909/ )

Best hardware for maximum throughput and PPS performance | Quagga | Users

http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/quagga/users/16802 email threads that provides some pieces of info about linux routing performance (from 2008 )

Linux Software Router : Data Plane Optimization and Performance ...

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.academypublisher.com%2Fjnw%2Fvol02%2Fno03%2Fjnw02030617.pdf&ei=-4zzSZ38FpywtAP0sLDPCg&rct=j&q=Linux+sofware+router%3A+data+plane+optimizations&usg=AFQjCNE5OzutnNt9SWgOaMcZydC5jLXTwg in-depth linux routing performance evaluation, including code profiling, execution path analysis, etc

Linux as IP Router [vaytta marketing paper, benchmarks are at the end]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=17&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreedomhec.pbwiki.com%2Ff%2Flinux_ip_routers.pdf&ei=yXDzSdjSD4yYtAPG_cXPCg&rct=j&q=linux+routing+performance&usg=AFQjCNGNHX6jWJ7Ybrg8Jod24MMenJYt0g Paper from vayatta with some benchmarks that shows raw ip forwarding performance with various packet sizes and % of packet losses. Basically 2.8 Intel celeron + 1G broadcom (tg3) cards can deliver ~150Mbps on 64b packets limited by CPU

SourceForge.net: BenchmarkSQL

http://sourceforge.net/projects/benchmarksql tool for testing database performance, jdbc-based, supports a lot of different DBs