Server Resources & monthly transfer

Just did some local speed testing:

InvisionBoard average speed: 0.00449673271179
punBB average speed: 0.00240712326765

So there is a speed advantage.. thats from 4000 hits on the index.php of both invision and pun, on a 400mhz machine.

Default installation index.php size:

Invision: 4.48kb
punBB: 3.39kb

Size saving. This is of course only on a default installation though, so values might be different once you have added all your forums etc.

Sweet...

See also here, forums are at the bottom:
http://www.english.rk.edu.pl/article7.html

He's going to redo the stats soon. I asked him to add Nucleus to the CMS list. Maybe someone can help him configure punBB to get it into first place.

I think, in punBB's case, it's is also the absence of fluff. I was not surprised to see how phbBB did in the test.

I was wondering if someone would take the time to run a few benchmarks. Nice to see PunBB comes out on top :D Or is it in second place? 1.2 will be faster even.

I would much prefer if he used a real benchmark tool though. ApacheBench comes to mind.

While we're on the subject. A benchmark that only fetches one page repeatedly doesn't quite do lean forums such as PunBB and useBB any justice. The larger forums often have loads and loads of images that need to be fetched as well (through individual HTTP requests). People usually forget that it is often Apache that breaks down before i.e. MySQL does. More images, stylesheets, external javascripts etc leads to more HTTP requests which leads to more strain on the server. I remember when we got slashdotted over at sweclockers.com. Apache was eating up all the CPU time.

It would have been awesome if someone had taken the time to make a more complete benchmark. Creating identical forums, topics and posts in different forum software and then benchmarking the individual pages via ApacheBench. Download size including images, stylesheets etc. should be included in the equation. There are loads of problems though. What to do with features that A has, but B lacks (especially regarding BBCode)? How do we fill the different forums with the same content? Do we benchmark once with a clean install and once with 50000 posts?