Perfomance gain of using HTTP Classes over iRules

Hoolio,

 

 

I'm not aware of any testing having been performed that focus on the performance difference between iRules and HTTP classes directly. The final two questions in his post above are what led me to giving testing advice.

 

 

 

Naman,

 

 

I'm afraid I'm not as up-to-date on freely available software packages as I'd like to be; my testing is usually done with purpose-built performance test hardware that's not commonly available. I'm not aware of what software based tools are really our there, though anything that provides a consistent level of load would be acceptable. Even a bunch a spare linux machines looping through 'ab' would work, you'd just have to ensure that you are accounting for deviations in performance due to inconsistency from within the test infrastructure. My first thought would be running multiple tests to produce averages that should be indicative of the differences. LTM is very fast, and that makes serious performance tests problematic.

 

 

Are the results you posted above for a single run, or several runs averages together? What platform are you testing?

 

 

 

--jesse