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#! rnews 2105 bsd Message-ID: <32A71A98.7342@amersham.co.uk> Date: Thu, 05 Dec 1996 18:55:20 +0000 From: Michael Cole <mjc@amersham.co.uk> Organization: Amersham International X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 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 ! ? References: <aak2.848946036@Isis.MsState.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: prospero.life.amersham.co.uk Lines: 23 Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!howland.erols.net!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!oleane!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!soap.news.pipex.net!pipex!dish.news.pipex.net!pipex!vulcan! Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix:22937 comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc:6282 comp.unix.solaris:91815 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32247 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 combo. > 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 Stronghold. > > Something is not right somewhere and I am not sure how to pin it down. > Any helpful hints would be greatly appreciated. > > Atif Khan > aak2@ra.msstate.edu I guess you are running the Netscape server with the SSL turned on as well ? I'm not that well up on SSL but I guess if the Apache is having to encrypt/decrypt and the Netscape is not then the former could be up to 10 ? times slower. Michael.