[EMAIL PROTECTED] apache 5 x load, 15 x CPU load - whats happening ?

2008-11-11 Thread dave selby
Hi All, I have apache2 running AOK serving a web page that calls a xmlhttp request every second and downloads a jpeg image approx 28k every second. top reveals ... 3.3% CPU and 0.8% Memory 16089 dave 20 0 241m 85m 29m R 7.3 6.8 6:32.20 firefox-2-bin 31187 www-data 20 0 24956

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] apache 5 x load, 15 x CPU load - whats happening ?

2008-11-11 Thread André Warnier
dave selby wrote: Hi All, I have apache2 running AOK serving a web page that calls a xmlhttp request every second and downloads a jpeg image approx 28k every second. top reveals ... 3.3% CPU and 0.8% Memory 16089 dave 20 0 241m 85m 29m R 7.3 6.8 6:32.20 firefox-2-bin 31187

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] apache 5 x load, 15 x CPU load - whats happening ?

2008-11-11 Thread dave selby
I am not the specialist here, but just looking at your two top displays above, am I right in suspecting that you are running this XmlHttpRequest test from a firefox browser which runs on the same machine as the Apache you are testing ? Yep, thats the case if that is the case, it would be

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] apache 5 x load, 15 x CPU load - whats happening ?

2008-11-11 Thread André Warnier
dave selby wrote: [...] OK ... I did not realize that there would be competition, the CPU load is not 100% so I don't understand why apache and firefox would be competing ? It is a bit difficult to tell what is really happening, which is why it may be better trying to isolate the different

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] apache 5 x load, 15 x CPU load - whats happening ?

2008-11-11 Thread dave selby
2008/11/11 André Warnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: dave selby wrote: [...] OK ... I did not realize that there would be competition, the CPU load is not 100% so I don't understand why apache and firefox would be competing ? It is a bit difficult to tell what is really happening, which is why it