From owner-freebsd-performance@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 18:41:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D3516A40F for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:41:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out4.apple.com (mail-out4.apple.com [17.254.13.23]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BD4913C455 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (relay6.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out4.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0CHoiWp027763; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:50:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 2532A1009A; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:50:44 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807124-a1ce9bb000006d75-7d-45a7ca744103 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (unknown [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 10C0310084; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:50:44 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <465799.40884.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <465799.40884.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:50:41 -0800 To: "R. B. Riddick" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network perf : em driver ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Performance/tuning List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 18:41:14 -0000 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