Hi, here are some performance tests. I don't know why it's faster with the patch...
Dual PIII 1 GHz, 512MB, Red Hat 7.1, ab running on another machine, 100 Mbit NICs d:-> Jan --- with options --- socket_timeout=900 --- cache_timeout=15 Server Software: Apache/1.3.22 Server Hostname: linus Server Port: 80 Document Path: /examples/servlet/HelloWorldExample Document Length: 393 bytes Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 29.223 seconds Complete requests: 10000 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 6180618 bytes HTML transferred: 3930393 bytes Requests per second: 342.20 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 292.23 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 2.92 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 211.50 [Kbytes/sec] received Connnection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 0 0.9 0 14 Processing: 26 290 49.3 293 545 Waiting: 11 290 49.3 292 545 Total: 26 291 49.0 293 546 --- with no option set Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 28.821 seconds Complete requests: 10000 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 6180000 bytes HTML transferred: 3930000 bytes Requests per second: 346.97 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 288.21 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 2.88 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 214.43 [Kbytes/sec] received Connnection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 1 3.3 0 113 Processing: 56 286 49.5 285 536 Waiting: 30 285 49.6 285 535 Total: 56 286 49.5 286 647 --- without patch Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 29.869 seconds Complete requests: 10000 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 6182472 bytes HTML transferred: 3931572 bytes Requests per second: 334.80 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 298.69 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 2.99 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 206.99 [Kbytes/sec] received Connnection Times (ms) min mean[+/-sd] median max Connect: 0 0 0.9 0 14 Processing: 31 297 59.4 294 742 Waiting: 29 296 59.4 294 742 Total: 31 297 59.4 294 743 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>