This rush generated 7,363 successful hits in 1.0 min and we transferred 56.39 MB of data in and out of your app. The average hit rate of 117/second translates to about 10,159,286 hits/day.
So you're right in that Varnish is the big improvement, but the CPU of the server seemed to be significantly higher with varnish alone than with varnish + APC.
Of course, one issue with these systems is there's no such thing as vanilla, the documentation goes from "Install" to "Read 100 pages of stuff to get a working configuration", with nothing in between...
This rush generated 7,363 successful hits in 1.0 min and we transferred 56.39 MB of data in and out of your app. The average hit rate of 117/second translates to about 10,159,286 hits/day.
So you're right in that Varnish is the big improvement, but the CPU of the server seemed to be significantly higher with varnish alone than with varnish + APC.
Of course, one issue with these systems is there's no such thing as vanilla, the documentation goes from "Install" to "Read 100 pages of stuff to get a working configuration", with nothing in between...