HTTP Benchmarking

Benchmarking my HTTP server revealed some issues - I was not closing components after their TCP connection closed. Initially I was getting throughput of about 5 hits/sec. After some tweaks, such as only yielding when left with nothing to do, I managed to get 100 hits/sec for highly dynamic pages or 800 hits/sec for small static pages when using persistent connections. This is fairly good, although an simple, efficient webserver written in C could probably handle several thousand hits/sec. I've been using siege to do the load testing/benchmarking.

I found a bug in the Kamaelia TCP components - they raised an exception when the remote host disconnected unexpectedly, taking down the entire HTTP server in the process. :D

I've made a handy little Python script to convert tabbed code to spaced code.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, string

def tabsToSpaces(path):
   myfile = open(path, "rb")
   contents = myfile.read()
   myfile.close()
   lines = string.split(contents, "\n")
   contents = []
   for line in lines:
       tabs = 0
       replacement = ""
       while line[tabs:tabs+1] == "\t":
           tabs += 1
           replacement += "    "
       contents.append(replacement + line[tabs:])
      
   contents = string.join(contents, "\n")
   myfile = open(path, "wb")
   myfile.write(contents)
   myfile.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
   if len(sys.argv) != 2:
       print "Usage: tabsToSpaces.py "
   else:
       tabsToSpaces(sys.argv[1])