Previously, I was not satisfied with the performance of my application running on Nginx version 1.27 in Laragon. Then, I tried using Laravel Octane with FrankenPHP as the chosen server.
I configured Laravel Octane in WSL2, which was then forwarded to Windows, and it successfully ran.
The problem is, I noticed a significant difference in performance. I tested the network load in Chrome DevTools and got the following results:
As you can see, the load time difference is quite large—almost twice as slow or even worse!
Then, I tried a benchmark test using the /status endpoint (my application's health route) with the following parameters:
wrk -t2 -c50 -d30s https://domain.com/status
wrk -t2 -c50 -d30s https://domain2.com/status
I ran the benchmark three times for more accurate results, and the outcome was even worse. Octane achieved around 140 RPS - 233 RPS, while Nginx achieved 529 RPS - 798 RPS.
I'm running the same application with the same configuration.
The only difference is that I used proxy_pass to Nginx when running Octane, following the Laravel Octane documentation.
Any idea why this is happening?
Laragon is for development, not for running production sites. To do that you need to set up a proper production environment. This is usually done using a linux server, and not by using WSL2.
If I were you, I'd start with installing the laravel debugbar in the application, and take a look to see if there are any slow queries, n+1 issues, high memory usage, or too many hydrated models.
What @tray2 said. Side note cute kitty.
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