Re: ab weirdness...

[Rasmus Lerdorf]

> When I use "ab" from another Linux box to fetch a static HTML page
> (about 6K in size) on a test server on the same network, "ab" reports:
>       3 requests per second
> versus about:
>       900 requests per second
> when "ab" is run directly on the test server.

Strange.  I don't see that here.  I actually get better results when I run
ab from another machine across a quiet 100M LAN.  You must have something
really funky going on.  Massive collisions?  Bad cable?  Duplex problem?

-Rasmus