JavaScript: Node JS :: example stress-testing
Here�s helloworld.js:
var sys = require('sys'),
http = require('http');
http.createServer(function(req, res) {
res.sendHeader(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
res.sendBody('<h1>Hello World</h1>');
res.finish();
}).listen(8080);
sys.puts('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8080/');
If you have Apache Bench installed, try running ab -n 1000 -c 100 �http://127.0.0.1:8080/� to test it with 1000 requests using 100 concurrent connections. On my MacBook Pro I get 3374 requests a second.
So Node is fast�but where it really shines is concurrency with long running requests. Alter the helloworld.js server definition to look like this:
http.createServer(function(req, res) {
setTimeout(function() {
res.sendHeader(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/html'});
res.sendBody('<h1>Hello World</h1>');
res.finish();
}, 2000);
}).listen(8080);