Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:30:07 -0800 (PST) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network perf : em driver ? Message-ID: <20070112183007.41607.qmail@web30306.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <D72CF331-5BF3-496D-B08F-1505DE58AB75@mac.com>
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--- Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > On Jan 12, 2007, at 8:07 AM, R. B. Riddick wrote: > > As the "OP" (what is that exactly? again an animal?) mentioned: > > Apache performs > > worse than scp. > > Quick testing suggests that an Apache child process accumulates a > similar amount of CPU time transferring large files as scp when using > an SSL connection; if you access Apache via HTTP rather than HTTPS, > it uses much less CPU than scp does. > Hmm... CPU usage isnt all that counts... I can write an http server, that uses 0.1% CPU time and produces 800bit/sec traffic... :-) > > My memory tells me similar things... Remember: Apache is > > optimized for LINUX not necessarily for FreeBSD... > > Apache's been optimized to run quite well on a lot of platforms, > although it is somewhat heavy-weight compared with a webserver > oriented towards serving static files only. > I just cant find the thread about apache/thttpd (it was in freebsd-performance@, I think), and I dont have up-to-date hardware, and I am too lazy to compare Apache on FreeBSD to the theoretical maximum, some piece of software can reach on FreeBSD... Since these systems are nowadays so complex and difficult to compare, I would recommend benchmarks, that r tailored on and for the special box... Ideally one would use different boxes and test each with different OSes and different application-implementations, so that u can do an informed decision based on empirical data in the end (of course I know, that limited time and funding causes some pressure)... -Arne --- "Denny Crane, Denny, Denny, Denny ... Crane" (from "Boston Legal") "Get me Homer Landskirty" (from "Scary Movie 4") ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail
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