Hey mod_perl users, I just did a benchmarks to compare mod_perl + apache versions 1 & 2. What I find striking is that without any optimizations, the v2 mod_perl & apache are faster. I'm really blown away, as I was expecting the new versions to be slower with v1 configurations.
Here's the numbers in brief: **** Apache/1.3.26 + mod_perl/1.27 + perl 5.6.1 **** Test Name Test File Hits/sec # of Hits Time(sec) secs/Hit Bytes/Hit Mem(KB) --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- HTML static hello.htm 1420.7 100000 70.39 0.000704 322 5062 mod_perl handler hello.ben 942.5 100000 106.10 0.001061 206 7660 **** Apache/2.0.40 + Perl/v5.8.0 + mod_perl/1.99_05-dev **** Test Name Test File Hits/sec # of Hits Time(sec) secs/Hit Bytes/Hit Mem(KB) --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- HTML static hello.htm 1619.7 100000 61.74 0.000617 290 5912 mod_perl handler hello.ben 1210.1 100000 82.64 0.000826 194 11070 The mod_perl benchmark was run with the Apache::compat layer and the perl-script directive in Apache 2.x, so it was not optimized. Further, the configs between the web servers were identical on my linux server during the benchmarks, so Apache was not optimized at all for v2. & on top of that, the mod_perl2 was loaded as a DSO while mod_perl1 was compiled statically. Again, I'm amazed. Obviously the apache & mod_perl development teams have done an awesome job in building this next generation server. Regards, Josh
