On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:56:47PM -0700, Lewi wrote: > I'm running redhat 9 in celeron 600mhz+ram 128mb+hd > 7200rpm(maxtor) > > while reading about http benchmarking, I running ab > and httperf to mark webserver: Benchmarks are particularly meaningless if you run the benchmark client on the same machine as the server you are testing. You are also comparing the servers using different versions of the client, which makes any comparisons unreliable. Nevertheless, I'd expect any differences you see would reflect the difference in default httpd.conf (MaxClients setting etc) between the two installations. Regards, joe