t2000 vs RHEL, RHEL wins?

I'm trying to compare an HP DL360 running RHEL4 with a T2000 and Solaris
10. It's been a number of years since I used Solaris so I probably
don't know how to best tune it anymore.

My test was to setup each with Apache2 to act as a download server.
With nearly equal traffic to each (~240Mbps), the linux box had more
httpd processes and a lower load average.

I really expected the Sun to way out perform the HP/Linux box.

Is there something I over looked?

root@sun-t2000 (/opt/csw/apache2/) 210> ps -eaf | grep http | wc -l
1507
root@sun-t2000 (/opt/csw/apache2/) 215> uptime
4:38pm up 17:40, 3 users, load average: 1.77, 4.04, 3.14

[root@hp-rhel4 conf]# ps -eaf | grep http | wc -l
2028
[root@hp-rhel4 conf]# uptime
17:24:55 up 5 days, 6:15, 2 users, load average: 0.56, 0.69, 0.45

The only significant change I made was to Apache2 as follows:

<IfModule mpm_prefork_module>
StartServers 2000
MinSpareServers 10
MaxSpareServers 50
ServerLimit 2048
MaxClients 2048
MaxRequestsPerChild 10000
</IfModule>

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matthew zeier | Network Engineer | Mozilla Corp. | (650)903-0800 x219
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