Sure. I think the Ops guys there might still have an Xserve laying around.
He's right... we do. I'm still not sure if it's ever been turned on. ;)
The bigger question is what the bench marks would be exactly.
Bingo.
It all depends on the application. Most of the testing that's done on webservers is *usually* how it deals under duress serving static pages... yes, there are dynamic testing benchmarks out there.
There are so many flippin' ways we use AOLserver just at AOL that it's completely unfair to say that AOLserver X.X is better on Solaris than it is on Linux. You have to take so many things into consideration (external dependencies, databases, compilation options, OS tuning parameters). Comparing AOLserver as used by AOL.com to AOLserver as used by Moviefone.com or even AOLserver as a backend application layer isn't fair. So that's why we do our best to test each application and its dependencies. Sadly, usually the testing is done after the hardware is purchased. Yay for compressed timeframes.
But then again, the prices of x86 hardware (and the associated support contracts) make executives happy. :)
That being said, I did a test a little bit ago slamming the begeezus out of an .adp page with a bunch of ns_adp_puts in it (so I was exercising the Tcl interpreters, not just the fastpath stuff) on a few platforms:
Sun Fire V240, Solaris 9, AOLserver 3.5.10: 1871 conns/sec Sun Fire V240, Solaris 9, AOLserver 4.0.1: 1747 conns/sec Compaq DL 360, RH AS 2.1, AOLserver 3.5.10: 1880 conns/sec Compaq DL 360, RH AS 2.1, AOLserver 4.0.1: 1835 conns/sec Compaq Proliant, RH AS 3.0, AOLserver 3.5.10: 2220 conns/sec Compaq Proliant, RH AS 3.0, AOLserver 4.0.1: 2256 conns/sec
As predicted, Red Hat Advanced Server 3.0 came out on top, most likely due to NPTL. The boxes were all hovering between 60-80% CPU utilization... network saturated.
~Adam
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