[rhelv6-beta-list] Apache benchmark RHEL 5 vs. RHEL 6

Wed Nov 10 14:37:14 UTC 2010

I was thinking the same thing.

Are the versions of apache the same (apologies if this was already
stated)?

On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 08:43:19 -0500, Edward Rudd <erudd at netfor.com>
wrote:
> On Nov 10, 2010, at 6:21 , Morten P.D. Stevens wrote:
> 
>> 1) yum install httpd
>> 2) cd /var/www/html
>> 3) touch test.html
>> 4) test.html code:
>> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
>> <html>
>> <head>
>> <title>Webserver test</title>
>> </head>
>> <body>
>> This is a webserver test page.
>> </body>
>> </html>
> 
> 
> This is something that has been bugging me about this whole thing.  
> If you are testing with such a small file, wouldn't that file be
> completely in the linux kernel file cache?  So the filesystem
> shouldn't really be making much of a difference at all.  Apache should
> be doing a straight sendfile out of the file cache buffers directly to
> the network interface?  If that is the case then it seems the target
> for issues would be the network driver subsystem?
> 
> 
> Edward Rudd
> Lead Programmer
> Netfor, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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