I think you may have missed something. If the two tests were identical, the total number of bytes transferred should have been the same. In the first case you transfer 2.6 MB, in the second 9 MB. No wonder the first test executes faster... -ascs -----Original Message----- From: JM [mailto:jerome@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 1:02 PM To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [users@httpd] mod_backhand on load balancing apache 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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