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Sample results

2017-02-28 (1)

Summary for /modsec-off, RPS (count):
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  10      39445.56      46228.25      44283.87     43476.616     2184.7312
 latency (ms)
x  10           1.1          1.37          1.21         1.222   0.091627264

Summary for /modsec-light, RPS (count):
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  10       8071.25      11953.68      10634.85     10374.126     1200.2281
 latency (ms)
x  10          4.23          7.82             5         5.358     1.2109941

Summary for /modsec-full, RPS (count):
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  10         238.8        259.02        246.88       247.418     5.9640549
 latency (ms)
x  10        208.11        230.52        217.76       218.968     6.9131273

2017-02-28 (2)

Summary for /modsec-off, RPS (count):
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  10       38136.4      47561.79      44300.42     43351.954     2743.1755
 latency (ms)
x  10          1.07           1.4          1.19         1.206   0.099911072

Summary for /modsec-light, RPS (count):
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  10      10120.76       12979.9      12727.41     12290.594     891.67524
 latency (ms)
x  10          3.88          5.02          3.98         4.128    0.34726871

Summary for /modsec-full, RPS (count):
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  10        334.64        370.86        363.77       356.733     13.667706
 latency (ms)
x  10        142.49        158.27        147.04       148.176     5.8598297

2017-03-05

  • nginx: 1.11.10
  • ModSecurity: v3/dev/parser (8b8fd84)
  • ModSecurity-nginx: v3/dev/parser (9f6d3a7)
  • environment: 12-core KVM/libvirt VM on bare-metal server (Intel Xeon E5645 2.4GHz, 24 cores total)
  • configuration details:
  • nginx: worker_processes 6; worker_cpu_affinity 111111000000;
  • wrk: taskset -c 0-5 wrk -t6 -c600 -d30s (10 iterations)
Summary for /modsec-off, RPS (count):
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  10      87538.41      97062.44      93506.49      92832.83     2717.0839
 latency (ms)
x  10          6.22          6.88          6.49         6.508    0.21054427

Summary for /modsec-light, RPS (count):
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  10      27984.07      31588.76      31013.95     30484.634     1151.9494
 latency (ms)
x  10         18.98         21.57         20.06         20.01    0.81266366

Summary for /modsec-full, RPS (count):
    N           Min           Max        Median           Avg        Stddev
x  10         164.5        251.93        181.79       191.226     28.760167
 latency (ms)
x  10        197.41        429.26        330.67       308.639     73.228166

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