There is no flame - just a couple of points and a request for data. >> If you want to improve something, you should provide solutions, not critics
Certainly - early next year you will see them. Here are some current performance stats with some new technology we're working on. Configuration Tool Elapsed Time (sec’s) Data Transfer Rate (KB/sec) Requests per Second Requests per Minute Performance Gain Factor Apache Apache Bench 38.735 882.92 2581.64 154,898 1.0 Cyclone Proxy Cache + Apache Apache Bench 15.663 2387.79 6384.47 383,068 2.47 Apache Zeus Bench 39.961 855.83 2502.44 150,146.4 1.0 Squid + Apache Zeus Bench 28.910 1314.42 3459.01 207,540.6 1.38 Cyclone Proxy Cache + Apache Zeus Bench 15.176 2464.42 6589.35 395,361 2.63 Cyclone Proxy Cache (Tuned Parser) + Apache Zeus Bench 13.505 2769.34 7404.67 444,280.2 2.95 Cyclone Proxy Cache (4 Tuned Functions) + Apache Zeus Bench 13.006 2875.6 7688.76 461,325.6 3.07 These numbers were obtained using a single processor Itanium® 1.0Ghz (Madison) chip. By tuning certain HTTP string handling functions we have seen up to a factor 11 performance improvement. Our next benchmark is due by year end. Essentially we will be adding one more line for the stats above. The goal is very simple - transmit greater than 1 million requests in a single minute on a single processor Itanium 1Ghz machine. A factor 10 performance improvement. A single processor Deerfield Itanium® chip costs $744 - our solution doesn't require a current OS, nor hard drive to operate - it scales to multiple chips and can support a cache of up to 1 terabyte of RAM >> Revolution is for new players, carefully crafted evolutions are for the Mass Yep… Support for a 1TB cache, no hard drive, no current OS required, and the ability to pump data faster than any other platform on the planet should do the trick. Only thing left is to get the Itanium® platform into a single 1RU box at sub $5,000. I doubt we will have to wait long for that. Long live the revolution Regards, Peter -----Original Message----- From: Henri Gomez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 7:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: the wheel of httpd-dev life is surely slowing down, solutions please Peter J. Cranstone a écrit : >>>It's not anymore "cool" to work on Apache. > > > You nailed it - because no one knows where it's going. Where's the focus, > what does Apache really want to be, whose leading the charge? > > I've been following this forum a long, long time and the change in the last > 2 years has been the most dramatic - the old guard has gone, there is little > leadership and even less reason to do anything. > > It takes a tremendous amount of work to build a quality software project and > sadly there is little enthusiasm to really improve Apache. > > One reason is obvious - with 66% of the market you're a monopoly (close) and > we've all seen what happens when competition disappears from the market > place. I'm not sure http-dev is the place to flam ASF and its commiters. If you want to improve something, you should provide solutions, not critics. HTTPD have 66% of the market and that's great to see that an OpenSource solution is well behind M$. Sun, Oracle and majors corps have stopped dreaming having 50% of market share some years ago. At least we could say, Apache Software Foundation does it and maintain its leading position. How ? - By producing solutions like HTTPD which are stable, full featured and works on so many platforms. Revolution is for new players, carefully crafted evolutions are for the mass.
