I can check into this (as I said another engineer ran the tests), but these servers were on the same network segments.
Also, our customers are seeing roughly the same numbers (at least for Apache 1.3 -- they're not up to 2.0 yet). -- Jess Holle Clay Webster wrote: >Jess, > >Were IIS and Tomcat on the same windows hardware as >the Apache httpds? Are you seeing network issues >(e.g.- rexmits) -- you might have them everywhere, but >your Solaris may not be configured well (ndd,MTU,etc). > >--cw > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jess M. Holle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:30 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x Performance Issue > > >Ian Holsman wrote: > >Jess M. Holle wrote: > >Both Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x suffer a severe perfomance issue when the server is on >Windows and the client is Solaris (and perhaps others). > >Before you stop reading this as simply "we know Windows does not perform well", I >should point out that this does not occur when the client is Windows or Linux, nor >when the server is on the same Windows box but is IIS or Tomcat (standalone)! > >Some rough download speeds: > > * recent Apache 1.3.x on Windows: > o client on Solaris (8): 80K/sec > o client on Linux or Windows: 8MB/sec > * recent Apache 2.0.x on Windows: > o client on Solaris (8): 120K/sec > o client on Linux or Windows: 8MB/sec > * IIS on Windows > o any client tried: 8-9 MB/sec > * Tomcat (standalone) on Windows > o any client tried: ~8MB/sec > > >just out of interest does the same thing happen when we have a solaris server and a >windows client? >I'm not sure. I've not yet tried that (and actually another engineer ran all these >tests). I also just noticed that I got some numbers slightly wrong: > >Apache 2.0.39 on Windows > >client on Solaris (8): 649 K/s >client on Linux: 9.1 MB/s > >[I've appended this amended info to the bug report.] > >-- >Jess Holle > > >
