Very low performance without worker mode in docker

[alexskra]

What happened?

I did a few performance comparisons in requests per second with a basic Laravel skeleton. I tested Nginx + PHP-FPM, FrankenPHP worker(octane), Swoole(octane), and FrankenPHP(not worker mode).

FrankenPHP worker mode is 4,59 % faster than Nginx + PHP-FPM, so very similar, while the performance for static files is 69,57% lower.

FrankenPHP without worker mode is very slow at just ~1 % of the RPS I get with Nginx + PHP-FPM. Despite the low performance, it is still using many cores, so it is spending time doing something.

I would expect Laravel Octane with FrankenPHP to be closer to Swoole, and I would expect the non worker docker run to be much faster.

Additionally I tried embedding the Laravel app following the steps in the docs. Performance was slightly better but still terrible, and when the benchmark was done it crashed with a segfault.

Results

Stack	RPS	Percentage Difference
Nginx + PHP-FPM	14 639,20	-39,93 %
FrankenPHP Worker	15 425,75	-36,71 %
Swoole	24 372,82	0,00 % (Baseline)
FrankenPHP, non-worker	281,77	-98,84 %

Stack	Static RPS	Percentage Difference
Nginx + PHP-FPM	403 230	0.00 % (Baseline)
FrankenPHP Worker	122 699	-39,57 %
Swoole	173 383	-57,00 %
FrankenPHP, non-worker	34 173	-91,52 %

Method

The non-worker mode test of FrankenPHP used docker with host networking to reduce overhead, using the same project as Nginx + PHP-FPM:
docker run --net=host -v $PWD:/app dunglas/frankenphp

FrankenPHP does redirect to HTTPS, but the tests are done with Keep-Alive, so it should perform much better despite it being HTTPS.

Commands for PHP benchmarking:
wrk -c 100 -t 1 -d 10s http://localhost/api/hi
For static file serving:
wrk -c 100 -t 8 -d 10s http://localhost/ok.txt

Nginx + PHP-FPM: (static 403 230 RPS)
Running 10s test @ http://localhost/api/hi
  1 threads and 100 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     6.77ms    1.04ms  21.07ms   73.84%
    Req/Sec    14.72k   103.88    14.99k    72.00%
  146637 requests in 10.02s, 35.94MB read
Requests/sec:  14639.20
Transfer/sec:      3.59MB

FrankenPHP Worker Mode: (static 122 699 RPS)
Running 10s test @ http://localhost/api/hi
  1 threads and 100 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     6.58ms    3.59ms  40.40ms   74.04%
    Req/Sec    15.50k   481.75    16.67k    77.00%
  154345 requests in 10.01s, 32.82MB read
Requests/sec:  15425.75
Transfer/sec:      3.28MB

Swoole: (static 173 383 RPS)
Running 10s test @ http://localhost/api/hi
  1 threads and 100 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency     3.87ms    1.38ms  36.20ms   77.79%
    Req/Sec    24.51k   538.22    25.40k    88.00%
  244397 requests in 10.03s, 54.77MB read
Requests/sec:  24372.82
Transfer/sec:      5.46MB

FrankenPHP, non worker: (static 34 173 RPS)
Running 10s test @ https://localhost/api/hi
  1 threads and 100 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency   347.06ms   32.71ms 398.46ms   94.90%
    Req/Sec   284.33     32.32   323.00     73.74%
  2823 requests in 10.02s, 702.99KB read
Requests/sec:    281.77
Transfer/sec:     70.17KB

System info

Ubuntu 24.04
Ryzen 9 3950X
Linux spark 6.8.0-31-generic #31-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat Apr 20 00:40:06 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Docker version 26.1.2, build 211e74b

How to reproduce FrankenPHP non-worker results

composer create-project laravel/laravel laravel-test
cd laravel-test/
php artisan install:api
echo -e "<?php\n\nuse Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;\n\nRoute::get('/hi', function () {return 'Hi';});" > routes/api.php
php artisan optimize
docker run --net=host -v $PWD:/app dunglas/frankenphp

Build Type

Docker (Debian Bookworm)

Worker Mode

No

Operating System

GNU/Linux

CPU Architecture

x86_64

PHP configuration

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[dunglas]

Your config doesn't seem to be optimal at all for benchmarking (Docker Volume, dev mode of Laravel, all features enabled while it's not the case for other tools).

That being said, we cannot review all benchmarks. We maintain one in this repository (https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp/blob/main/testdata/load-test.js / https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp/blob/main/testdata/benchmark.Caddyfile) and one for Symfony (https://github.com/dunglas/frankenphp-demo/tree/main/benchmark).

There is also the TechEmpower benchmark (https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/d9bc7017125517e6ad95de2f5518e9e1361b8bb4/frameworks/PHP/laravel) that uses Laravel. Note that we didn't carefully review it and that it can probably be optimized (for instance, by disabling logs, which are known and expected to slow down benchmarks).

You may also be interested in these issues: #72

Feel free to reopen if you can provide a reproducer after having applied these optimizations.

[withinboredom]

Just to maybe point you in the right direction @alexskra, nginx spawns some 40 threads on a production machine just idling, while spawning much much more when under load. Further, most people set FPM to "ondemand" which will just keep spawning workers until whatever the max workers is.

I don't know your physical characteristics, but maybe try setting the number of threads to a comparable amount to nginx/fpm for FrankenPHP. By default, FrankenPHP only spawns 2 x number cores PHP workers. This is possibly much much lower than the FPM/nginx configuration.

You probably also need to tune GOMAXPROCS as well.

95% of people won't need to tune this to handle this level of RPS, unless you are at Google level, in which case there are probably other concerns. The bottlenecks of most RPS-driven workloads are in the database, and not the webserver.

[dunglas]

@withinboredom it would be awesome if you could write a "performance tuning" doc at some point, you have accumulated an extraordinary amount of knowledge about this topic!

[dunglas]

Maybe should we try to improve the TechEmpower benchmark results too.

[alexskra]

@dunglas All tests are done with Laravel APP_ENV set to production, and APP_DEBUG set to false. I'm on Linux, so bind mounts should have no impact as far as I know. As for optimizations, all are out of the box setups, with the exception of PHP-FPM where the only change is the number of processes to utilize (~all cores). As for the enabled features, I do not know what you mean by that. Does FrankenPHP have some features enabled that should be disabled in prod? Then it should probably be added to the "deploy in production" part of the docs.

I also tried using the Dockerfile from the Deploy in production part of the docs, and it's still very slow.

FROM dunglas/frankenphp

# Be sure to replace "your-domain-name.example.com" by your domain name
#ENV SERVER_NAME=your-domain-name.example.com
# If you want to disable HTTPS, use this value instead:
ENV SERVER_NAME=:80

# Enable PHP production settings
RUN mv "$PHP_INI_DIR/php.ini-production" "$PHP_INI_DIR/php.ini"

# Copy the PHP files of your project in the public directory
#COPY . /app/public
# If you use Symfony or Laravel, you need to copy the whole project instead:
COPY . /app

95% of people won't need to tune this to handle this level of RPS, unless you are at Google level, in which case there are probably other concerns. The bottlenecks of most RPS-driven workloads are in the database, and not the webserver.

@withinboredom It is common for the DB to be the bottleneck, yes, but that is not true in this case where it's less than 300 RPS while eating up nearly all cores. There must be some extreme inefficiencies involved as PHP-FPM manages ~52x the number of requests with a similar amount of CPU usage.

The docker image doesn't crash or stop answering like the binary, but considering the extreme performance difference there might something very wrong when using the docker image too.

If someone could provide a basic non-worker setup for production(docker or using the binary) then I'm happy to try it and report back if it changes anything. I love the idea of FrankenPHP, but it seems like the non worker mode is very far from production ready.

[dunglas]

Does FrankenPHP have some features enabled that should be disabled in prod?

It is exposed publicly on the internet, no. If it is behind a reverse proxy or an ingress, you likely want to disable HTTPS, compression, etc.

There must be some extreme inefficiencies involved as PHP-FPM manages ~52x the number of requests with a similar amount of CPU usage.

The thing is that this can be caused by many many things (bad configuration, hardware, software, specific code path...). It will be very hard to diagnose without a reproducer or an environment that we can manipulate.

Our own (publicly available) benchmarks and most third-party benchmarks give totally different numbers, and it's almost impossible to tell why it behaves differently for you without more information.

[withinboredom]

Good idea!

The TechEmpower benchmarks might be a good place to start so we'd have a documentation of each effect.

[withinboredom]

@alexskra

There must be some extreme inefficiencies involved as PHP-FPM manages ~52x the number of requests with a similar amount of CPU usage.

There's no inefficiencies, Caddy is "queueing" the requests until a php thread can process the request. If you don't have enough PHP threads then it will just sit there, mostly enqueueing requests. You can see this in the exceptionally large latency.

[alexskra]

Our own (publicly available) benchmarks and most third-party benchmarks give totally different numbers, and it's almost impossible to tell why it behaves differently for you without more information.

I'm sorry, but where are the public benchmarks that shows better performance for non-worker mode FrankenPHP?

You were referring to TechEmpower benchmarks earlier, and they show the opposite of what you're saying. Take a look here.

Here is a summary for the linked TechEmpower results.

Symfony

Swoole: 149 004 RPS
Nginx + PHP-FPM: 32 960 RPS
FrankenPHP: 3 814 RPS

Results

Swoole is 39 times faster.
Nginx + PHP-FPM is 9 times faster.

Huge differende.

Plain PHP

Swoole: 836 680 RPS
Nginx + PHP-FPM: 177 872 RPS
FrankenPHP: 365 RPS

Results

Swoole is 2 292 times faster.
Nginx + PHP-FPM is 487 times faster.

So, no, it's not just for me.

[withinboredom]

So, fun story (running the benchmarks right now), they're so low on TechEmpower because the benchmarks are actually silently failing due to port exhaustion.

It helps to set uname -n to a high number...

[alexskra]

There must be some extreme inefficiencies involved as PHP-FPM manages ~52x the number of requests with a similar amount of CPU usage.

There's no inefficiencies, Caddy is "queueing" the requests until a php thread can process the request. If you don't have enough PHP threads then it will just sit there, mostly enqueueing requests. You can see this in the exceptionally large latency.

That does not make sense to me. If it is just sitting there waiting for PHP threads then it should not consume all of the CPU, right? What is it doing with all that CPU time if it's just waiting? Queuing up to 100 requests isn't exactly a heavy workload at such low RPS. It has to queue less than 300 requests per seconds.

If I use Nginx + a single PHP-FPM process, then the CPU load will stay low as it's not really doing anything. It's just waiting for PHP-FPM to finish the request, and that process takes one CPU thread. Latency will be high, but CPU usage will be very low. Even with a single PHP-FPM process it's ~3 times faster than what I manage with FrankenPHP.

[dunglas]

@alexskra this page is too old, it was slow because logs were enabled and verbose, fixed in this PR: TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks#9047

Here is a newer result (but again, the benchmark hasn't been audited by us): https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=test&runid=d3364379-1bf7-465f-bcb1-e9c65b4840f9&hw=ph&test=fortune&f=zik0zj-zik0zj-zik0zj-zik0zj-zik0zj-zik0zj-zik073-zik0zj-zik0zj-zik0zj-zik0zj-zik0zj-zik0zj-zik0zj-b8jj

[withinboredom]

That does not make sense to me. If it is just sitting there waiting for PHP threads then it should not consume all of the CPU, right?

You can enable profiling and I, for one, would be interested to see what comes out of it.