This is a simple Axum (Rust) web app that returns "Hello, World!" response, made for benchmarking performance and resource usage and comparing it with Next.js and Hono benchmarks.

Install Rust.

cargo run

Here is how to deploy the application to a Orange Pi 5 server:

Add aarch64 target to your Rust toolchain:

rustup target add aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

Build the release binary:

cargo build --release --target aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

Copy the binary to the server:

scp target/aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu/release/axum-hello-world orange:~/axum-hello-world

• RAM usage: 238M
• CPU Load average (over 1 minute): 0.06

• RAM usage: 237M
• CPU Load average (over 1 minute): 0.06

wrk -t10 -c1000 -d600s http://192.168.20.25:3000/

• RAM usage: 270 MB
• CPU Load average (over 1 minute): 2.23

Results:

  10 threads and 1000 connections
  Thread Stats   Avg      Stdev     Max   +/- Stdev
    Latency    27.81ms   26.06ms 482.62ms   96.82%
    Req/Sec     4.13k   106.13     5.54k    72.94%
  24628834 requests in 10.00m, 5.89GB read
Requests/sec:  41044.39
Transfer/sec:     10.06MB

The web server was run on Orange Pi 5 Max with 16 GB RAM and 1 TB NVMe SSD running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The program was compiled with Rust 1.83.0. The wrk benchmark command was run on a Desktop PC (12600K, 32 GB RAM), running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Both machines were connected to NetComm NF18ACV router via 1 Gbps Ethernet cables.

curl -v http://192.168.20.25:3000/
*   Trying 192.168.20.25:3000...
* Connected to 192.168.20.25 (192.168.20.25) port 3000
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: 192.168.20.25:3000
> User-Agent: curl/8.5.0
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
< x-filler: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
< content-length: 13
< date: Wed, 25 Dec 2024 04:18:50 GMT
<
* Connection #0 to host 192.168.20.25 left intact
Hello, World!

The x-filler header was added to make the HTTP response size equal to that of the Next.js benchmark.

Response size:

curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{size_download}\n%{size_header}\n" http://192.168.20.25:3000/
13
244