Reduce request size for plaintext

[MDA2AV]

Currently there seems to be a networking bottleneck for the plaintext tests, probably caused by 40GbE bandwidth limitation?

Could we reduce the size of the request? (removing some headers)

[joanhey]

The bench only require 3 headers (I think), server, time and Conttent-lenght .

The plaintext bench have another bottleneck , only in this bench it use pipelining that not browser use it, but whit a lot of fw with a Proxy. or semi, they are beneficial.

If you want to check the performance of your fw, please don't check the plaintext, use the json test and Up.

[MDA2AV]

The bottleneck is not the server response which contains few headers, it's the request

 GET /plaintext HTTP/1.1
 Host: server
 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) Gecko/20130501 Firefox/30.0 AppleWebKit/600.00 Chrome/30.0.0000.0 Trident/10.0 Safari/600.00
 Cookie: uid=12345678901234567890; __utma=1.1234567890.1234567890.1234567890.1234567890.12; wd=2560x1600
 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
 Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
 Connection: keep-alive

Well, not that it bothers me too much, just pointing out that plaintext results are possibly impacted by this and may be inaccurate for top performing frameworks.

[joanhey]

It's very strange that headers, as all come from a Curl call from wrk.
I'll check it !!

EDIT: please how do you check the headers send !! because for me it's OK.
I only said some years ago, than the Connection: keep-alive is unnecessary as http1.1 and up, by default use keep-alive.

[joanhey]

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/master/toolset/wrk/query.sh

Here are the headers (theoretically) send by any request.

[MDA2AV]

It's very strange that headers, as all come from a Curl call from wrk. I'll check it !!

EDIT: please how do you check the headers send !! because for me it's OK. I only said some years ago, than the Connection: keep-alive is unnecessary as http1.1 and up, by default use keep-alive.

I saw it here but I guess this is not the actual request.

[joanhey]

Yes, I think that is an error that example requests.
The Cookie and Accept-Language headers normally are not sent. And like I said, actually the Connection: keep-alive is unnecessary with any http 1.1 and up.
@msmith-techempower

[msmith-techempower]

The example plaintext request was modeled more after what a web browser would be making. @joanhey is correct in that we send very minimal headers by comparison.