Around Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 09:43:45AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven, wrote: > > > Isn't this _slow_??? I mean, look at the numbers and the difference > > in specs between the server and my laptop! > > > > In the article, the writer uses a 2x3.2GHz Xeon and gets up to 4730 > > requests/sec!! > > > > Can anyone tell me if I'm benchmarking it wrongly or something else > > is happening?? > > -c 1000 spawns a lot of parallel work for both the client app and the > server, so you basically kill your performance context switching... > > also the number of requests you do is equal to the number of threads so > each thread only does 1 request, with the result that that 1 request > gets the full setup hit of such a thread.... I tried my desktop with ab -n 1000 -c 200 http://localhost returned: 47.3 requests/s Rerunning with: ab -n 1000 -c 100 http://localhost returns: 1858.95 requests/s -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list