On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, Scott Lamb wrote: > significant difference between them. In transferring either big or > small files with httpd-2.0 HEAD and ab over loopback on Darwin > (keepalive on). Which I'd think would be the ideal situation for seeing > an improvement...
Neither ab nor loopback make for a particularly good test of this sort of thing. I suggest you use flood instead of ab and use two machines instead of the loopback adapter. --Cliff