On 15-Jan-2010, at 10:34, Jarrod Slick wrote: >>> So, I should be more specific with my question: to the end of determining strictly which webserver is more efficient do you see any problems with this type of setup? >> >> More 'efficient' I think you mean. > > Is that not exactly what I said? My quotes were meant to indicate that the 'efficient' you are testing really has nothing to do with actual efficiency. >>> And another question: how would you do it differently? Sure, in an ideal world I could assemble my own botnet and then blast my corporate network with a gigabit of distributed traffic multiple times for each webserver -- but obviously in the real world that's not going to happen. >> >> The question you have to ask yourself is what are you wanting to test? A completely artificial metric with no real-world correlation? If so, then you're on the right track. > > Instead of dancing around the issue can you please provide some suggestions? I did provide suggestions, you said they weren't possible. > Or do you just like to be contrary? That too. -- Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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