Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [more results]

2009-05-27 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 5/25/2009 1:30 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Caldarale, Charles R >> Subject: RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [more >> results] > > There are some extracts from the 2007 O&

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [more results]

2009-05-25 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, The message below was garbled when sent. Fortunately, it ended up being preserved correctly in my sent message folder. Here it is. - -chris - Original Message Subject: Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [more results]

2009-05-25 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Caldarale, Charles R > Subject: RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [more > results] There are some extracts from the 2007 O'Reilly Tomcat book about benchmarking on somewhat newer hardware than Chris is using: http://www.devshed.com/c/b/BrainDump/ T

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [more results]

2009-05-23 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] > Subject: Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [more > results] > > Chris, there's something wrong with this post. You have to use lemon juice and a heat source to read it... - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [more results]

2009-05-23 Thread André Warnier
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Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [more results]

2009-05-23 Thread Christopher Schultz
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Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some results]

2009-05-20 Thread André Warnier
Actually, I was thinking more of disabling the AccessLog in httpd, to see how much impact that had. (That's also less additional tests to run ;-)) Christopher Schultz wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 5/19/2009 2:28 PM, André Warnier wrote: Christopher Schultz w

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some results]

2009-05-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 5/19/2009 2:28 PM, André Warnier wrote: > Christopher Schultz wrote: > ... > Thanks for the work. At least it may put to rest some gross > misconceptions. > > Now just a question : in the httpd tests, did you have an AccessLog > enabled ?

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some results]

2009-05-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gregor, On 5/19/2009 12:59 PM, Gregor Schneider wrote: > I'm a bit puzzled: > > In your previous tests it looked like that Apache is "outperforming" > (ok, not really) Coyote w APR when the files grew bigger. I disagree with that conclusion. My inte

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some results]

2009-05-19 Thread André Warnier
Christopher Schultz wrote: ... Thanks for the work. At least it may put to rest some gross misconceptions. Now just a question : in the httpd tests, did you have an AccessLog enabled ? I would imagine you did not have an AccessLogValve enabled in Tomcat, and I wonder if it makes any practical

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some results]

2009-05-19 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Caldarale, Charles R > Subject: RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some > results] > > > In your last results I can't see that pattern - actually, I don't see > > /any/ pattern... > > Quantum mechanics? More seriously, we may

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some results]

2009-05-19 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Gregor Schneider [mailto:rc4...@googlemail.com] > Subject: Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some > results] > > In your last results I can't see that pattern - actually, I don't see > /any/ pattern... Quantum mechanics? - Chuck TH

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some results]

2009-05-19 Thread Gregor Schneider
I'm a bit puzzled: In your previous tests it looked like that Apache is "outperforming" (ok, not really) Coyote w APR when the files grew bigger. In your last results I can't see that pattern - actually, I don't see /any/ pattern... Any idea how come? Cheers Gregor -- just because your parano

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [some results]

2009-05-19 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, So, I have some data from last night. It's about what you'd expect, except that the NIO+sendfile connector test failed most of the time: the client got something like "apr_connect: Connection reset by peer" when it tried to connect to the server.

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 André, On 5/18/2009 4:56 PM, André Warnier wrote: > You say you ran each test for 10 seconds, so I guess the numbers are not > the seconds it took, so what are they ? They are transfer Rate (KiB/sec) as measured by ApacheBench. > I also wonder about

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread André Warnier
Chris, what do the numbers represent ? You say you ran each test for 10 seconds, so I guess the numbers are not the seconds it took, so what are they ? I also wonder about the numbers, for example in the first column (httpd). They seem to grow more or less lineraly as the file size increase

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 5/18/2009 4:40 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >> Subject: Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance >> [Revised/Updated] >> >&

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance > [Revised/Updated] > > After reading some of your feedback, I've decided to make some changes: > > - - Using TC 6.0.18 exclusively

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance[Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Robin Wilson [mailto:rwil...@kingsisle.com] > Subject: RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content > performance[Revised/Updated] > > I don't know if I'd call a 4% difference a "dead heat"... Given the likely variability of any measurements taken in an 8

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Lin
le Entertainment, Inc. > WORK: 512-623-5913 > CELL: 512-426-3929 > www.KingsIsle.com > > > > -Original Message- > From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 3:25 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Apach

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread Robin Wilson
Original Message- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 3:25 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin, On 5/18/2009 4

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin, On 5/18/2009 4:11 PM, Robin Wilson wrote: > Thanks! This information isn't useless... Of course, more detailed > results, after a longer test run would be more conclusive. Yup, that's the plan. Tonight, I'll be running with an 8 minute test to

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread Robin Wilson
to:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 2:31 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, After reading some of your feedback, I've decided to make some changes: -

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance [Revised/Updated]

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, After reading some of your feedback, I've decided to make some changes: - - Using TC 6.0.18 exclusively instead of 5.5 - - Using tcnative 1.1.16 instead of 1.1.12 - - Using httpd 2.2.11 instead of 2.2.10 - - Running tests for a certain amount of

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Dillon Sellars
> Also, I'd be curious about the big disparity between the 16MiB files > and the other 1MiB-32MiB files... It looks like all of them are > relatively consistent at the KiB/sec rates you show - but suddenly > there's a huge burst of speed on the 16MiB file (for httpd). So I'd > be really curious to

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread David kerber
Peter Crowther wrote: ... As a rough first cut, vmstat 5 and watch the numbers ;-). iostat too, if you can. If CPU isn't pegged at 100% and the disk isn't at full capacity, that's an interesting result as it implies the box has spare capacity and there's contention elsewhere - often lock co

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robin, On 5/18/2009 11:35 AM, Robin Wilson wrote: > I'm curious by your comment that Coyote/APR is performing on par with > httpd, from the results in your first message I saw it was a pretty > big difference. Or are you saying that wasn't using APR?

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, On 5/18/2009 11:37 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: >> I suppose I could gauge each test so it would take (roughly) a certain >> > amount of time (say, 10 minutes). At least then I'd know how long the >> > entire battery would take :) > > I think tha

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 5/18/2009 10:32 AM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >> Subject: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance >> >> I will be comparing an out-of-the-box prefork MPM httpd

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Robin Wilson
r of Web Development KingsIsle Entertainment, Inc. WORK: 512-623-5913 CELL: 512-426-3929 www.KingsIsle.com -Original Message- From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] Sent: Monday, May 18, 2009 10:24 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static c

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > I suppose I could gauge each test so it would take (roughly) a certain > amount of time (say, 10 minutes). At least then I'd know how long the > entire battery would take :) I think that's probably a better approach. > Okay. My o

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/18/2009 11:23 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote: > Chuck, Er, Peter. Sorry 'bout that. - -chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkoRgJYACgkQ

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Martin, On 5/18/2009 10:47 AM, Martin Gainty wrote: > the apache httpd [crowd] may cry foul because you are testing with a > prefork config instead of worker assuming you can scare up another > processor I'm happy to re-run the tests using a worker M

Re: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck, On 5/18/2009 10:33 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] 1. >> Is the number of requests (100, sufficient? It seems to take >> forever on this machine... my Coyote tests took longer th

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Martin Gainty
the apache httpd may cry foul because you are testing with a prefork config instead of worker assuming you can scare up another processor is there a way to run the same httpd test suite with apache worker? assuming the definition data_transfer_rate is accurate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > 1. Is the number of requests (100, sufficient? It seems to take >forever on this machine... my Coyote tests took longer than >overnight. You want enough tests that they're sensitive to statistically significant differ

RE: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance

2009-05-18 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] > Subject: Apache httpd vs Tomcat static content performance > > I will be comparing an out-of-the-box prefork MPM httpd 2.2.10 > configuration against an out-of-the-box Tomcat 5.5.26 Coyote, APR, and > APR without sendfile configur