[NTLUG:Discuss] Apache 2.0 performs better on non-Linux platforms...

[Richard Geoffrion]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Cox" <cjcox at acm.org>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 11:12 PM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Apache 2.0 performs better on non-Linux
platforms...


> ...because....http://www.eweek.com/article/0,3658,s=702&a=25458,00.asp
says:
> > On Unix, don't expect a big performance boost with the new release. In
tests of Apache 2.0 vs.
> > Apache 1.3.24 running on Red Hat Inc.'s Red Hat Linux 7.2, performance
was nearly identical (though
> > still very good). However, platforms such as Solaris and AIX, where a
process switch is relatively
> > slower than it is on Linux, will benefit much more from Apache 2.0's
hybrid process/thread design.
>
> So the question is.... where are the Apache benchmark comparisons between
Linux
> and
> say... Solaris??  I think that would be interesting.  Sun, an anti-Linux
> company,
> would probably not appreciate the comparsion of course, but I think it
would
> be interesting none the less.
>
> Of course the hybrid/threading feature was considered one of the major
feature
> changes
> in Apache 2.0 (that and the "native" Windows support).... has anyone tried
2.0
> out yet?  Any thoughts?  What's the best feature of 2.0 for Linux?
>
> (just trying to liven up the discussion list with something other than a
support
> request)
> Chris

Prepairing to install 2.0.35 even as we speak.  Now I wonder what security
bugs will crop up.  mmMMMMm  the bleeding edge.