Re: Apache 1.3.x and 2.0.x Performance Issue

[Jess M. Holle]

Note:

wget was used in all measurements.

Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:

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