http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2006/09/12/ruby-on-rails-caching-benchmarks en-us 40 Max Dunn's Blog <p>I have been working on optimizing my <a href="http://www.maxdunn.com">Ruby on Rails wiki</a> so that it can stand up under heavy load. The first step I took was to implement caching so that the pages don&#8217;t need to be re-rendered each time. This is especially important in my wiki since each page can have 6 different sections that need to be rendered:</p> <ol> <li>header</li> <li>menu</li> <li>footer</li> <li>left column</li> <li>middle column</li> <li>right column.</li> </ol> <p>I did some quick benchmarks that might be useful for others that are optimizing their RoR apps:</p> <table> <tr> <th>Caching Method &nbsp; </th> <th> Page Load Time &nbsp;</th> <th>Pages per Second </th> </tr> <tr> <td>None</td> <td>620ms</td> <td>1.6</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Action</td> <td>270ms</td> <td>3.7</td> </tr> <tr> <td>Page</td> <td>18ms</td> <td>55</td> </tr> </table> <p>These times were produced with the web load testing program <a href="http://grinder.sourceforge.net/">The Grinder</a> on my Averatec <span class="caps">AMD 2800</span>+ laptop using WEBrick running Windows XP and Rails in development mode.</p> <p>The main conclusion is that while utilizing Action caching doubled the performance, using Page caching increased the performance over 30 times!</p> Tue, 12 Sep 2006 17:56:00 -0700 urn:uuid:1dc7614a-b102-403c-87de-35072014427a Max Dunn http://blog.maxdunn.com/articles/2006/09/12/ruby-on-rails-caching-benchmarks Ruby on Rails