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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!nntp.zit.th-darmstadt.de!fu-berlin.de!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!news.texas.net!node2.frontiernet.net!not-for-mail From: dsf@node5.frontiernet.net (Dan Foster) Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Apache much slower than Netscape ! ? Date: 8 Dec 1996 18:48:38 -0500 Organization: Frontier Internet, A reliable part of your life Lines: 27 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <58fk4m$hi2@node5.frontiernet.net> References: <aak2.848946036@Isis.MsState.Edu> <32A71A98.7342@amersham.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: node5.frontiernet.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:22934 comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc:6281 comp.unix.solaris:91810 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32243 In article <32A71A98.7342@amersham.co.uk>, Michael Cole <mjc@amersham.co.uk> wrote: >Atif Ahmad Khan wrote: >> >> We have just setup a test Pentium PRO 200 server running Solaris X86 2.5.1 >> (all latest patches applied) and got Stronghold secure server (Apache >> with SSL patches) and tried to run some benchmarks. >> >> We were very excited about the new server and were thinking that it was >> going to beat the pants off of our Netscape 1.2 on FreeBSD 2.1 Pent 90 com >> Imagine our surprise when we found out that Netscape is roughly 6 times >> faster. I am not sure what to blame, the Solaris OS or Apache or Strongh >> Something is not right somewhere and I am not sure how to pin it down. >> Any helpful hints would be greatly appreciated. If you *really* want to boost performance of Apache/Apache SSL to at least match (roughly) performance of Netscape Commerce server (I haven't even benchmarked it vs a Netscape Enterprise server yet), you oughta install Harvest which is a *really* kick-ass caching tool. FYI: Apache 2.1b1 (I think I got that right) is out - officially beta, but has numerous code improvements, and has been under internal testing by the Apache team for at least 8 months, I believe... -Dan Foster Internet: dsf@frontiernet.net