Agreed too. In the end you can tune Apache far more better than the default
compile options and really increase the amount of requests per second
depending on the tests ;-)
The Ubuntu version of Apache is not at all fully optimized, too. That's a
curious example.

What i use for stressing is a tool called "siege". It has worked for me for
years. But i shall take a look at the one developed by Cherokee people.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/siege

David (Kitai) Cruz


2009/5/18 Oli Warner <[email protected]>

> Is there any well-established, respected benchmark for webservers out
>> there?
>
>
> The problem with any web server benchmarks is they rarely show true
> real-world load patterns.
>
> Plenty show static content and because Cherokee can cache these, it's
> naturally pretty damned fast. Great! I'm glad but it doesn't show other
> important factors. I want to know if Django+SCGI+Cherokee is as fast as
> Django+ModWSGI+Apache. Same goes for PHP+FastCGI+Cherokee vs
> PHP+ModPHP+Apache.
>
> There are also a billion and five ways to tune the balls off Apache for
> various tests, which might be a little unfair... But so is leaving it as a
> stock install. The standard Ubuntu version of Apache isn't great for VPSes
> for example (the main reason I'm using Cherokee) but it can be pulled back
> to use less RAM.
>
> The same for Apache goes to Nginx. I remember when I saw the last set of
> Cherokee benchmarks, a NginX user was saying he could make it a lot faster
> than Cherokee.
>
> At the end of all this tweaking and arguing, we, the users, have no idea
> what to pick.
>
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