Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:50:41 -0800 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network perf : em driver ? Message-ID: <D72CF331-5BF3-496D-B08F-1505DE58AB75@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <465799.40884.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <465799.40884.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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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. > 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. -- -Chuck
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