Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Tommy M. McGuire
Jarrod Slick wrote: All tests will be performed on localhost. I did not want to comment since I am not an Apache nor LiteSpeed performance expert, but I rather suspect that will invalidate any results you get. At least it will make it much harder to get any kind of consistent results. --

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Tommy M. McGuire wrote: Jarrod Slick wrote: All tests will be performed on localhost. I did not want to comment since I am not an Apache nor LiteSpeed performance expert, but I rather suspect that will invalidate any results you get. At least it will make

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote: I'm curious -- why do you think that the results will be inconsistent?  If anything I would be inclined to think that using localhost would improve consistency as extraneous variables like network congestion at the

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Tom Evans wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote: I'm curious -- why do you think that the results will be inconsistent? If anything I would be inclined to think that using localhost would improve consistency as

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Eric Covener
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote: What about having a private VLAN between a testing machine and the apache machine.  I suppose that would solve the resource separation problem between the benchmarking tool and the web server.  Can you think of any

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Eric Covener wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote: What about having a private VLAN between a testing machine and the apache machine. I suppose that would solve the resource separation problem between the

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Scott Gifford
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.comwrote: [ ... ] And another question: how would you do it differently? Sure, in an ideal world I could assemble my own botnet and then blast my corporate network with a gigabit of distributed traffic multiple times for each

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Tommy M. McGuire
Jarrod Slick wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Tommy M. McGuire wrote: Jarrod Slick wrote: All tests will be performed on localhost. I did not want to comment since I am not an Apache nor LiteSpeed performance expert, but I rather suspect that will invalidate any results you get. At

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-14 Thread Scott Gifford
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.comwrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Scott Gifford wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.comwrote: Apache Users, As some of you may or may not know a fairly prominent commercial

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-14 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Basic query, is LiteSpeed an open source ? Can we write our own plugins equivalent to Apache modules which will talk to LiteSpeed ? Thanks in advance. -A On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Scott Gifford sgiff...@suspectclass.comwrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Jarrod Slick

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-14 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Scott Gifford sgiff...@suspectclass.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Scott Gifford wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote:

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-13 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
Sounds interesting, You may also want to test things like requesting protected resources (basic, digest)... Maybe some other things like WebDAV (of all servers support it),... ~Jorge On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.comwrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:47 AM,

[us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-12 Thread Jarrod Slick
Apache Users, As some of you may or may not know a fairly prominent commercial webserver, LiteSpeed, claims to outperform even a well configured Apache 2.2.x installation by orders of magnitude. They have some internal benchmarks that appear to back this up, but, being a natural

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-12 Thread Scott Gifford
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.comwrote: Apache Users, As some of you may or may not know a fairly prominent commercial webserver, LiteSpeed, claims to outperform even a well configured Apache 2.2.x installation by orders of magnitude. They have some

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-12 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Scott Gifford wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Jarrod Slick jar...@e-sensibility.com wrote: Apache Users, As some of you may or may not know a fairly prominent commercial webserver, LiteSpeed, claims to outperform even a well configured Apache 2.2.x