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April 23, 2009 Last week I gave a talk about Monkey Project in Flisol 2009 Guayaquil (ESPOL), Ecuador. I presented a new benchmark of Monkey but now comparing the performance on serving static files with another web servers.
The test was made on my laptop Intel Celeron M, 1.6Ghz, 50000 request of a 200KB file with 20 concurrent threads doing the job, the benchmark was performed with Apache Benchmark.
I compiled the latest stable version of Lighttpd and Apache, the test was made 3 times per server and the result for each one is the average.
Monkey handle 1888 request per second versus Lighhtpd with 1716 and Apache with 1544. Obviously this numbers are not perfect but shows the great performance that 0.10.x is having with low memory usage and low cpu consumption, we still have to do a lot of improvements so stay tunned for more news 
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December 21, 2008 The last months , have been a hard work time refactoring the monkey source code, almost the 80% of the source code have been rewritten and now we can see some real numbers about how the performance of our development version, future release 0.10.0 is doing : just really rocking !
I’ve done a simple benchmark using the Apache Benchmark utility on my laptop which hardware is an Intel Celeron M 1.6GHz, 750MB RAM:
ab -n 50000 -c 20 http://127.0.0.1:2001/linux.jpg
linux.jpg is a file of 202177 bytes (202KB) which is requested 50000 times using 20 concurrent request,
These are really good news, Monkey 0.9.2 handle 469.65 request per second for file linux.jpg versus the GIT version which handle 1633.96 per second, at this moment the new Monkey is almost 70% more faster and scalable than older versions. The big changes made that make possible get this excellent performance are based in the new way to handle the network connections using epoll() + threads and better memory management.
Still there’s a lot of things to do, if you will like to contribute contact us!, join us to our maling list:
http://groups.google.com/group/monkeyd
see you around!
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October 20, 2008 Since 7 years that we don’t change the default index page of Monkey, thanks to Sugarush for his great artwork contribution to the project
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October 15, 2008 Hi Folks!,
Last month we have been working hard in the development version of Monkey, lot of news comming soon, but for now I would like to inform you about the next releases:
Monkey 0.10.0
Our next major release (NOT YET AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD, just the development branch), it includes several internal changes which make monkey a really fast web server and very scalable. This version will just work for Linux, another platforms will not be supported. Some features/changes include:
Monkey 0.9.3
Just little bug fixes, no improvements will come on 0.9.x series.
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We invite you to test our development version and send us feedback.
Cheers!
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October 2, 2008 Between October 23th and 24th, I’ll be attending the 9th National Linux Meeting in Chile, I’ll be talking about Monkey: past, present, ideas, goals and benchmarks! , If you want more details follow this personal blog link.
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September 28, 2008 Hi Folks,
In order to handle in a better way the information related to the
project, recently has been added the folowing:
1) Bug Tracking System: http://monkeyd.devjavu.com
2) Mailing List / Discussion Group:
http://groups.google.com/group/monkeyd
Mailing list: monkeyd@googlegroups.com
Please subscribe to the new services to stay tuned to the latest updates.
All monkeyd-* mailing list hosted by sourceforge.net, will be closed
due to spam issues and better administration.
Thanks
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September 28, 2008 Today I just registered Monkey in www.devjavu.com, which we will use as bug tracking system, so now you can file bugs and request new features in a easy way, the project page is:
So go and create your tickets!
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August 29, 2008 New Monkey works in a async way, a lot of code has been rewritten and actually I’m working in the dir_html feature, which allow to show a directory content to the browser…hope to have it ready soon!
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July 2, 2008 Development version of monkey is really rocking, a lot of changes “are” being made which improves the performance a lot: speed, memory usage, clients handler, logs writer, etc.
Next version will be a Major Release, there’s not a official release date, just stay tuned on this blog. As I always recommend, if you want to follow the change list, please use this link:
http://repo.or.cz/w/MonkeyD.git
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April 7, 2008 Today I got an email about that Monkey is part of the SID repository of Debian:
Hi Eduardo,
finally it’s done. Since today monkey is part of the Debian Sid repository.
So let’s see if there’s someone who finds some bugs.
I don’t know exactly how the packages from Debian go to Ubuntu, but I
think that at some time before a new release is finished the packages
are synced from Debian. So I assume, that monkey will also enter Ubuntu
at some time.
http://packages.debian.org/sid/monkey
Thanks Thorsten!!!
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