Instead of ApacheBench (ab). May I recommend Flood http://httpd.apache.org/test/flood/
Why Flood, according to Paul Querna (Apache committer) in this blog post http://paul.querna.org/journal/articles/2005/07/05/response-to-debunking-lighttpd?postid=85 -- ApacheBench Sucks. Why? It can't scale. It uses some blocking IO, but tries to use a single/threaded event paradigm. It has no concept of timing. Its understanding of HTTP/1.1 is limited to KeepAlives -- Now Flood also supports SSL though does not have engine(3) support. Now, think about Flood with engine(3) support taking advantage of the MAU on the T1000/T2000. It' becomes a screaming fast http client with a workload that the T1000/T2000 excels on. Then with Flood on Niagara, compare Apache/SSL on Niagara/Opteron/Dell boxen. IMHO, Flood will make the Niagara box look very nice and since the benchmark is open source compared to SPEC it means a lot more to ISP's/hosters looking for SSL offload box. So a shout-out to any Sun engineers who have the SSL mojo to add engine(3) support to Flood and pass the patches to ASF for committing them to the Flood tree. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ perf-discuss mailing list perf-discuss@opensolaris.org
