It would be nice if the client used was somehting like 'ab' - which comes with apache ran at 1-100 concurrency; or something like fetch, curl or wget to make the client identical on all platforms.
Dw On Tue, 27 Aug 2002, Jess M. Holle wrote: > 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 > >
