Jeff Spaleta wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Xose Vazquez Perez<xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> In Apache Benchmark: >> "Ubuntu was able to sustain more than 58% more requests per second than Fedora 11" >> >> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=fedora11_ubuntu904_perf&num=2> > Why did you cherry pick the bad news instead of the summary? I am not interested when Fedora is doing right. > The question becomes what is significantly different in the Apache > test? Is the Apache test essentially a network i/o test? What is > significantly different here that would not end up being tracked to an > upstream kernel networking stack regression? Is the apache performance > collatoral damage from selinux related latency? Something else in > userspace slowing Apache down. I've no idea. I can't imagine its > compiler related options on the Apache binaries. All "Phoronix Test Suite"[1] tests run in *local* host. NO net. Basically the "apache" test do: download http://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.11.tar.gz and http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/benchmark-files/apache-ab-test-files-1.tar.gz then compile apache ; exec it and run ab: $ ab -n 500000 -c 100 http://localhost:8088/test.html get more info doing "find . | grep apache" inside phoronix-test-suite dir To clone Phoronix apache test: $ wget http://www.phoronix.net/downloads/phoronix-test-suite/releases/development/phoronix-test-suite-2.0.0a3.tar.gz $ tar xvf phoronix-test-suite-2.0.0a3.tar.gz $ cd phoronix-test-suite $ ./phoronix-test-suite install apache $ ./phoronix-test-suite run apache wait... [1] http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/ -- Polycommander, Erkowit, Urquiola, Andros Patria, Cason, Aegean Sea, Prestige, ... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
