Philipp Bergsmann

I’m part of the EMEA OpenShift Black Belt team at Red Hat, focusing on the managed cloud offerings like ARO and ROSA.

I have worked in the IT industry for about 20 years in various roles, from development to cloud infrastructure consulting.

Over the last few years, I have worked extensively on Kubernetes-related topics, planning and implementing Kubernetes platforms with various local and international companies.

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The performance of TYPO3 can benefit a lot when using HHVM instead of a conventional PHP runtime. The following charts show a comparison of different settings under different load.

Test setup

  • MacBook Pro i7 2.7 GHz, SSD
  • Virtualbox on OSX Mavericks
  • TYPO3 mounted via NFS
  • Debian Wheezy
  • Nginx

Here you’ll find setup instructions

Chart Explanation

  • Grey bar: PHP-FPM
  • Blue bar: HHVM
  • C1 = 1 concurrent user, C10 = 10 concurrent users, C100 = 100 concurrent users
  • 6.1 = TYPO3 6.1.7, 6.2 = TYPO3 6.2.0
  • NC = no cache

Chart 1: Transactions / 15 seconds

As you can see, HHVM performs up to 9x better than PHP-FPM. There seems to be a major performance drop between TYPO3 6.2 and 6.1. I’ll have to look further into that…

Chart 2: Average response time in seconds

There is a major difference regarding the response time: With HHVM (10 concurrent connections, TYPO3 6.1) you have an average response time of 90ms, while with PHP-FPM the average response time is 730ms. That’s about 8x faster!

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