Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 20:23:40 -0600 (MDT) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: Don Wilde <dwilde1@ibm.net> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: *** Real Action Item: SPECweb Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980424201652.28001V-100000@alive.znep.com> In-Reply-To: <35414701.F1065C80@ibm.net>
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(moved to advocacy)
On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote:
> Could you give us some insight into what makes Zeus better, Marc?
>
It is a server that is better designed, better implemented, and better
tuned for high benchmark scores and extremely high load web serving. It
has been, for the past few years, _the_ high performance web server.
While more products are catching up to it now, I think it is still the
fastest publicly available web server that runs on FreeBSD.
I'm not going to go through the technical implementation differences
between the two and optimizations that Zeus has that give you better
performance, but they are there.
I don't think it is "better" than Apache and do not recommend it for a
general purpose web server, but it is not arguable that Apache is faster
for benchmarking than Zeus. In some situations it can keep up, but only a
small number.
Again, Apache can give you a good performance but it won't likely break
any records for the handling of static content; if breaking such records
on FreeBSD is your aim, you must use Zeus or write your own to have any
chance. When Apache 2.0 comes out perhaps it will be up there, if all
goes well.
--
Marc Slemko | Apache Group member
marcs@znep.com | marc@apache.org
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