Laravel 5.1 benchmarks

Quick-and-dirty Laravel 5.1 Benchmarks for Cache, DB, Session, etc.

To see exactly what this benchmark is doing, look at resources/views/benchmark.php -- it is a standalone file running on stock Laravel 5.1.

Sample run on Linode with xdebug disabled:

Installation on Homestead (YMMV)

• composer install
• cp .env-example .env
• mysqladmin -v create -f homestead -u homestead --password=secret
• sudo apt-get install php5-redis;service php5-fpm restart

Usage

Visit the site in a browser, the benchmarks should appear.

Tips and tricks

• xdebug makes a large difference -- try it with and without.
• Try redis over a socket -- put this in your config/database.php redis settings
  • 'path' => env('REDIS_PATH', '/tmp/redis.sock'),
  • 'scheme' => env('REDIS_SCHEME', 'unix'),
  • You'll also have to tell Redis to listen on a socket -- add this to /etc/redis/redis.php
    • unixsocket /tmp/redis.sock
    • unixsocketperm 777
• Mysql already connects over a socket by default for a host of localhost -- change the host to 127.0.0.1 to compare (may have to enable mysql to listen first).

Disclaimer

This is useful to me. I hope it's useful to you. It is what it is. PRs welcome.