Upload performance test pre-0-1-16

The tests below were conducted from a VM client (win7) located in Utrecht against a VM server (debian lenny) located in Amsterdam. The network path was at least 1 Gbps (with 2-10Gbps path segments in between), 5 hops and a latency of approx. 3-5 ms (both IPv6 and IPv4).

Case 1 - Upload performance test using Gears

Conducted by:

Xander Jansen

Since the upload speed is rather poor some tests were conducted to check the influence of debug logging and the gears upload chunk size. The tests were done with a 1 GByte file with random data against svn revision 205. The source file was located on and uploaded from local storage.

The table contains upload times (mm:ss) computed from the timestamp of the apache log of the first chunk (start) and the timestamp (Date: field) of the mail sent when the upload was done (stop).

Browser Version OS Debug SSL 200KB 1MB 10MB 25MB
mm:ss Mbps mm:ss Mbps mm:ss Mbps mm:ss Mbps
IE8 8.0.7600.16385 Win7 true + 20:08
 6.8
4:22
 31.3
20:55
 6.5



false + 11:37
 11.7
4:25
 30.1
Chrome 6.0.472.55 Win7 true + 21:21
 6.4 11:55
 11.5 9:20
 14.6 9:21
 14.6



false + 15:01
 9.1
9:39
 14.1
Firefox 3.6.8 Win7 true + 18:29
 7.4





false 9:25
 14.5
5:01
 27.2

As expected both the debug setting and the chunksize have a large impact on the upload speed. The effect of setting debug to true is largest with a small chunksize and isn't noticable anymore with the larger chunksizes (10MB+).

Case 2 - Upload performance test using Flash

The tests were done with a 1 GByte file with random data against svn revision 205. The source file was located on and uploaded from local storage.

The table contains upload times (mm:ss) computed from the timestamp of the call to fs_uploadit.php in the apache log (start) and the timestamp of the first fs_main.php call in the apache log after that (stop).

Browser Version OS Debug SSL Time (mm:ss)
 Speed (Mbps)
Safari 5.0.2 Win7 true -none- 5:16
 25.9
TLSv1 RC4-SHA 11:31
 11.9
TLSv1 AES128-SHA 11:27
 11.9
Opera 10.62 Win7 true -none- 5:52
 23.3
TLSv1 RC4-SHA 10:40
 12.8
TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA 10:39
 12.8
TLSv1 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA 9:45 14.0

Notes