Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 08 Jun 1999 04:29:01 +0000 | From | Steve Bergman <> | Subject | Re: Preparations for ZD's upcoming Apache/Linux benchmark |
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Alan Cox wrote:
> Of course nobody has addressed the problem that Apache is optimised for > the real world not benchmarks and that its not the right server to use > for a benching exercise with the rather poor benchmark tools used today.
There was an earlier thread that touched on Apache optimizations but was inconclusive on one point. Is it or is it not possible to get around the thundering herd problem with multiple NIC's and Apache? Isn't that Apache's main problem in this benchmark?
Apache is as much of an OSS poster child as Linux is. Using something else like Zeus might win the battle but would lose the war. What is really frustrating here is that while the netbench results have some reasonable real world interpretation, the webbench results are truly meaningless in today's world. It almost seems like a diversionary tactic to take people's time away from making apache better, by forcing them to work on getting better numbers in a meaningless test. Does anyone know of a Quad Xeon server anywhere with 4 100mb/s NIC's being pounded by 250+ clients throwing everything they've got at it?
-Steve
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