On 2/2/07, Jacob Munson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "for static documents, a properly tuned IIS is best.. in many other > > instances Apache works better" > > Doh, sorry I accidentally hit send before I could explain myself! The > above quote is from another mailing list I'm on (not CF related), so > I'm curious if anybody knows any evidence that proves/disproves this? > If that's true, then the assumption would be that ColdFusion is better > on Apache.
I read through the 20-some posts on this thread, so will just add a couple of things: 1) Your inference that CF runs faster on whichever webserver runs faster is just wrong -- there's nothing that about serving static content faster that has anything to do with dealing with speed of running some server-side language. 2) Dave Watts is 100% right on -- bandwidth saturates far before anything else on most typical web/app servers 3) What the heck is "properly tuned"? Properly tuned for your app? Platform? OS? App Server? Etc Etc. That's pretty meaningless. Just for fun, here's a graphic going around of the system calls in IIS vs Apache for service an HTML page with a single image on it http://blogs.zdnet.com/threatchaos/?p=311 -- the point in their case being each additional system call is a potential hack point -- but it's a good indication of how much work needs to be done to serve the page. Of course adding 100x more system calls when each system call is a few nanoseconds doesn't really change things either :) And I'll throw in a discussion I had w/ an unnamed Adobe source -- seems like Adobe runs CF inside a Java container with the internal webserver -- no IIS or Apache. Bottom line is that the web server you choose has close to no impact on the speed of your application in most circumstances -- and I'll suggest that if you're pushing the envelope hard enough to *need* to determine the differences in speed, you'll need to run your own performance and benchmarking tests to compare your own apples to your own apples, which will generally be useless to anyone elses' setup since they're using papyas. -- John Paul Ashenfelter CTO/Transitionpoint (blog) http://www.ashenfelter.com (email) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268919 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
