If you >really< want to benchmark the webserver,
you need to run the load generator from another machine.
Jerry Baker wrote:
>Jerry Baker wrote:
>
>>Sometimes 2.0.24-dev is faster, and sometimes it is a lot slower using
>>localhost to bench it. Here are the results for 5 test conducted with ab
>>-n 1000 -c 100 http://localhost/:
>>
>>Requests per second: 356.63
>>Requests per second: 206.78
>>Requests per second: 350.39
>>Requests per second: 53.57
>>Requests per second: 74.69
>>
>>Is AB not a good benchmark tool, or is the problem with Apache?
>>
>>--
>>Jerry Baker
>>
>
>Hmmm. I have noticed that when AB slows down that if I give focus to
>another window it speeds up again. Odd.
>