This is very rough and FWIW, hits per second averaged 6 times over an hour on a quiet server. I was mostly trying to compare mod_php against mod_python but I thought I'd throw in a simple Turbogears "Hello World!" example too.
Apache/2.0.54 (Ubuntu) DAV/2 SVN/1.2.0 mod_python/3.1.3 Python/2.4.2 PHP/5.0.5-2ubuntu1.1 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7g ab -d -S -c 30 -n 1000 http://localhost/hw.html (or :8080/) Results: hw.html = 1704 mppsp/hw_dynamic.psp = 742 mppsp/hw_static.psp = 806 mppub/index.py = 753 mpraw/hw.py = 1074 hw/ (turbogears:8080) = 37 hw_cherrypy.py (chpy:8080) = 217 hw_python.cgi = 39 hw_dynamic_class.php = 687 hw_dynamic_class_dbg.php = 583 hw_dynamic_function.php = 727 hw_dynamic_string.php = 764 hw_dynamic_traditional.php = 753 hw_static.php = 803 mppsp/hw_static.psp and hw_static.php are copies of hw.html The above scripts are at http://motd.com/abtests_20060106.tgz --markc
