Re: (Another) simple benchmark

Michael Vince wrote:

What I am trying to say here is you are expecting good performance out of things like CGI/PHP and prefork,

Ok, did anybody read my initial post?

I'm NOT setting up a production machine. I'm NOT using PHP - it was mentioned as a reason threaded apache is not widely used. I've run "ab -n 100000 -c 100 http://localhost/"; where "http://localhost/"; references a small static HTML file, served by apache 2.0.x. PHP was not even included in both apache setups. I've run this on a 8-cpu Xeon beast (ok, not really - 4 cpus, tried with hyperthreading on and off) and got terrible performance. This performance is objectively low even by itself, without any comparison with other operating systems (such as linux).

What I *am* doing now is looking for someone who has a 4 CPU or bigger machine idle on which he/she can replicate this simple benchmark (it really IS simple - you need apache20 port in default configuration - everything's included) and confirm or contradict my results. I won't tell exactly what my results are because: a) to encourage fairness and b) because they are so ridiculously low that if I'm wrong I don't want it to end up in mailing list archives for posterity :)


> Configuring a Apache server that has 'ready' 5 http daemons when
> its really expecting to do 100,000 requests and handle huge amounts
> of simultaneous connections just doesn't seem the right way to
> approach such setups and benchmark methods.

This has nothing to do with my original intent but I must reply. Under the context of my "benchmark", you're practically saying that doing this on Linux (and no, +/- 10 servers ready doesn't make a difference when there are 100 simultaneous connections involved) is ok, but on FreeBSD it isn't because of...what? Lack of objectivity?
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