Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-14 Thread Bing Swen
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote on 2008年8月22日 9:03: Which brings me to the other half of [community], I'm proposing we hold an Apache httpd {next} barcamp session for the community who are at ApacheCon BarCamp on Tuesday to learn about what has changed, what might change, and perhaps if we get enough

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-14 Thread bing swen
Jorge Schrauwen wrote on Sunday, September 14, 2008 7:47 PM This is no true. The latest version I've been able to compile was 2.2.9 http://www.blackdot.be/?inc=apache/binaries You are however correct that it's getting more cumbersome! Vista + VS 2005/2008 is a no go. I'm using a XP x64

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-14 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Bing Swen wrote: William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote on 2008年8月22日 9:03: Which brings me to the other half of [community], I'm proposing we hold an Apache httpd {next} barcamp session for the community who are at ApacheCon BarCamp on Tuesday to learn about what has changed, what might change, and

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-10 Thread steve
(Speaking of pet peeves -- why does Apache handle so many things besides HTTP, and yet I have to get other servers to handle certain kinds of HTTP requests because Apache doesn't handle it well?) 100K concurrent requests, kept open.

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-04 Thread steve
Our latest builds, on some fairly modest hardware, are actually about twice as fast as numbers I posted last time async-vs-threads came up. Apache can very easily fill multiple gigE interfaces on modest hardware. We can sustain about 45k requests/sec on our build on a dual dual-core system

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-04 Thread Bing Swen
Akins, Brian wrote on 2008年9月3日 7:54 Egads, no wonder they got such horrible performance. Worker (or event, maybe) seems to be the best way to go, at least based on our testing. Yes, Worker can work much better, but seems to be basically the same order of magnitute as threads on Windows

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-04 Thread Akins, Brian
On 9/4/08 4:22 AM, Bing Swen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you have super-optimized hardware and system? Nope, standard off the shelf systems. So I wonder perhaps next time you guys may bother to take time to also run Nginx on your platform and tell us how it performs against your httpd

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-04 Thread Akins, Brian
On 9/4/08 2:54 AM, steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Filling gigE and requests/sec aren't targets that concern me as a user. They sound like nice beanchmarks though... To some folks, filling a gigE is important. FWIW, I ran some tests yesterday with about 50K ISDN (384K) speed clients and httpd

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-03 Thread bill stoddard
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: bill stoddard wrote: I completely agree, it's not a slam-dunk conclusion that async/event driven connection management in an http server is clearly superior. However, Bing mentioned Windows... Apache on Windows is not a stellar performer, especially compared to a

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-03 Thread bill stoddard
Akins, Brian wrote: On 9/2/08 3:15 PM, bing swen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems the test (done by another guy) indeed used an everything plus the kitchen sink default Apache httpd at first, but then dropping off 3/4 of all of the default modules (maybe not that much, but only for serving

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-02 Thread Akins, Brian
On 9/1/08 8:11 AM, Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 31, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Bing Swen wrote: To my knowledge, the one thread per connection network i/o model is a suboptimal use threads vs. events is certainly not, imo, a finalized debate yet with a known winner or

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-02 Thread bing swen
Akins, Brian wrote on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 11:31 PM: sustain about 45k requests/sec on our build on a dual dual-core system with a network card that supports Linux NAPI (that made a huge difference). Without much tuning 35k is pretty easy. (Note: this was very small files, bcs it's so

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-02 Thread bill stoddard
Akins, Brian wrote: On 9/1/08 8:11 AM, Jim Jagielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 31, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Bing Swen wrote: To my knowledge, the one thread per connection network i/o model is a suboptimal use threads vs. events is certainly not, imo, a finalized debate yet

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-02 Thread Akins, Brian
On 9/2/08 1:02 PM, bing swen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a little different viewpoint. According to some recent test reports comparing Apache 2.2 and Nginx 0.6/0.7 (from a blog website admin.), Apache could do as well as Nginx when there are a few connections each of which carries many

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-02 Thread bing swen
Akins, Brian wrote on Wednesday, September 03, 2008 2:07 AM I saw this comparison somewhere. It just does not seem to match what I have seen. Our little ole website has been known to take a few connections from slow clients, but we have not really seen this slow down. I'd like to see more

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-02 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
bill stoddard wrote: I completely agree, it's not a slam-dunk conclusion that async/event driven connection management in an http server is clearly superior. However, Bing mentioned Windows... Apache on Windows is not a stellar performer, especially compared to a server that fully exploits

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-02 Thread Akins, Brian
On 9/2/08 3:15 PM, bing swen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems the test (done by another guy) indeed used an everything plus the kitchen sink default Apache httpd at first, but then dropping off 3/4 of all of the default modules (maybe not that much, but only for serving static pages) seemed

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Bing Swen wrote: Although Apache is famous for its modular design and configuration flexibility, it seems these new comers are challenging the relevance of Apache in real use. Is there any chance for Apache to get much better performance while retaining its design beauty? No, and yes. No,

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Aug 31, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Bing Swen wrote: To my knowledge, the one thread per connection network i/o model is a suboptimal use threads vs. events is certainly not, imo, a finalized debate yet with a known winner or loser. Maybe 5-10 years ago events had a clear advantage but today

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-09-01 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Jim Jagielski wrote: On Aug 31, 2008, at 9:49 AM, Bing Swen wrote: To my knowledge, the one thread per connection network i/o model is a suboptimal use threads vs. events is certainly not, imo, a finalized debate yet with a known winner or loser. Maybe 5-10 years ago events had a clear

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-08-31 Thread Bing Swen
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Which brings me to the other half of [community], I'm proposing we hold an Apache httpd {next} barcamp session for the community who are at ApacheCon BarCamp on Tuesday to learn about what has changed, what might change, and perhaps if we get enough folks to express

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-08-22 Thread Paul Querna
William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: Thoughts? I think doing *something* is good. I'm not sure tagging 2.3.0 or having another Apache 3.0 D {ream} session is the right thing Right now we just need someone to write lots of code and get us started. /imo. Having said that, I would he happy to

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-08-22 Thread Ruediger Pluem
On 08/22/2008 03:03 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I'm thinking of tagging 2.3.0 alpha a month before we gather in New Orleans for ApacheCon 2008/US http://us.apachecon.com/c/acus2008/ so that we can begin to gather community feedback and actually /do/ something about it at the hackathon.

Re: [community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-08-22 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
Ruediger Pluem wrote: On 08/22/2008 03:03 AM, William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote: I'm thinking of tagging 2.3.0 alpha a month before we gather in New Orleans for ApacheCon 2008/US http://us.apachecon.com/c/acus2008/ so that we can begin to gather community feedback and actually /do/ something about

[community] 2.3.0 alpha on October 1?

2008-08-21 Thread William A. Rowe, Jr.
I'm thinking of tagging 2.3.0 alpha a month before we gather in New Orleans for ApacheCon 2008/US http://us.apachecon.com/c/acus2008/ so that we can begin to gather community feedback and actually /do/ something about it at the hackathon. Ok, I'm using 'we' sort of liberally, I'm training a day