hi, I did some benchmark on clustered apache and a single apache box... based on my results a single apache box works a lot better than a clustered box.. in terms of execution and throughput/sec.. or I missed something out... I used ab as my tool.. ** CLUSTERED BOX Document Path: / Document Length: 5 bytes Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 33.613 seconds Complete requests: 10000 Failed requests: 4708 (Connect: 0, Length: 4708, Exceptions: 0) Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 2630181 bytes HTML transferred: 815656 bytes Requests per second: 297.50 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 336.13 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 3.36 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 78.25 [Kbytes/sec] received **SINGLE APACHE Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 20.962 seconds Complete requests: 10000 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 9000000 bytes HTML transferred: 7600000 bytes Requests per second: 477.05 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 209.62 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 2.10 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 429.35 [Kbytes/sec] received tia, --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx