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 > installation by orders of magnitude. They have some internal benchmarks > that appear to back this up, but, being a natural skeptic, I wanted to test > it out for myself. So I've agreed to pit Apache and LiteSpeed (as well as a > few other webservers) against one another in benchmarking tests on a 2x Xeon > 5520 machine. I, and hopefully others, will be configuring Apache. > LiteSpeed will be configuring their product. > What is the workload you are benchmarking? Static pages, PHP/mod_perl code, CGI, etc.? Is the client a benchmark tool or a browser, and where on the network is it relative to the server? How are you measuring performance (page load times, requests/second, etc.)? -----Scott.
