Simple Apache 1.3 vs 2.0 benchmarks

#include as usual, all normal benchmark disclaimers. This is -dev, so let's assume folks have a grasp of the gap between performance benchmarking and the real world. Before flaming please give credit to folks who are able to use this information in a larger and broader context, while recognizing that few of us have the time to implement fantastic benchmarks. Apache 1.3 with php *statically* compiled in gets 1436 reqs/s Apache 2.0 with php as DSO gets 1114 req/s. Apache 2 performs similarlity to Apache 1.3 with php as a DSO. Compiling statically appears helpful, and currently it is not possible to do so with apache 2. Apache 2 supports static modules generally. # ./bin/ab -c 15 -n 100000 /hello.php This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.32 <$Revision: 1.87 $> apache-2.0 Server Software: Apache/2.0.32 Server Port: 80 Document Path: /hello.php Document Length: 12 bytes Time taken for tests: 89.706050 seconds Complete requests: 100000 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 1114.75 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 0.013 [ms] (mean) Transfer rate: 268.89 [Kbytes/sec] received Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 12 95% 20 # ./bin/ab -c 15 -n 100000 /hello.php This is ApacheBench, Version 2.0.32 <$Revision: 1.87 $> apache-2.0 Server Software: Apache/1.3.23 Document Path: /hello.php Document Length: 12 bytes Complete requests: 100000 Failed requests: 0 Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 1436.89 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 0.010 [ms] (mean) Transfer rate: 259.59 [Kbytes/sec] received Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) 50% 10 95% 14