Magento Site Performance Optimization

Chapter 2
Waiting: 1364 2282 431.9 2154 3333
Total: 1485 2439 435.2 2318 3509
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 2318
66% 2606
75% 2712
80% 2920
90% 3120
95% 3193
98% 3425
99% 3509
100% 3509 (longest request)
We need a little less than 50 seconds to complete the 100 requests, and that gives
us a rate of 2.02 requests per second. However, we do not fight as light as expected
because the performances are equal to the basic optimizations of Apache2.
In the following section, we will try to play a little with the lighttpd configuration in
order to obtain better performances.
Configuration tweaks
The default configuration for the server can be found in the /etc/lighttpd/
lighttpd.conf directory, and it is as follows:
server.max-keep-alive-requests = 128
server.max-keep-alive-idle = 30
server.max-read-idle = 60
server.max-write-idle = 360
We will now modify them to the following:
server.max-keep-alive-requests = 4
server.max-keep-alive-idle = 4
It may sound a little counterintuitive in comparison to the configuration of the
Apache2 web server in which we actually raise these values. However, our tests
prove that lighttpd performs better with this little tweak.
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