RE: [PHP-DEV] Simple Apache 1.3 vs 2.0 benchmarks
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Tue, 26 Feb 2002 07:17:46 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DEV] Simple Apache 1.3 vs 2.0 benchmarks | ||
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Which platform are you on?
On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, August wrote:
> Hey Rasmus,
>
> Well, I'd done a similar set of benchmarks between DSO and static with
> apache 1.3.23, which showed the DSO variant getting around 1100 req/s.
> So it wasn't an automatic assumption, I just noticed that the Apache 2
> variant had some similar numbers. Unfortunately, the hardware I've been
> working with is giving me trouble (aka segfaulting during compiles) but
> I'll be happy to run some apache 1.3.23 DSO/static numbers when I get
> things fixed up.
>
> I was actually just trying to make the point you make about performance
> with Apache 2 being similar or slightly worse then Apache 1. There was
> some discussion along the lines of "I need the blazing Apache 2 speed"
> and wanted to show that was unlikely to happen, made more obvious
> because Apache 2 doesn't support static builds.
>
> There was a discussion on slashdot about some of this with some various
> perspectives:
> http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=28250&&cid=3035903
>
> Also benchmarked various MPM options, with little noticeable difference.
> Its's such a narrow workload however I'm not sure it really is
> meaningful. Also have benchmarked php footprint/speed for all the
> various options, as well as apache footprint/speed for all the various
> options. One lesson from that was that enabling or disabling the smaller
> modules makes little/no footprint/speed differences especially on the
> apache side.
>
> Anyways, hoping to get this box back in shape so I can get some work
> done.
>
> - AZ
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rasmus Lerdorf [mailto:rasmus@lerdorf.ca]
> Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 10:05 PM
> To: August
> Cc: php-dev@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Simple Apache 1.3 vs 2.0 benchmarks
>
>
> Uh, but did you benchmark straight cgi's between the two servers? How
> about straight static pages?
>
> Why would you automatically attribute the difference in performance to
> DSO
> vs. static issues? It is pretty well known that Apache2 is currently
> slower than Apache1 for stuff like this because of the added overhead of
> the bucket brigade implementation and other issues.
>
> -Rasmus
>