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

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Morten P.D. Stevens
<mstevens at imt-systems.com> wrote:
> 2010/11/10 Simon Matter <simon.matter at invoca.ch>:
>
>> And then again it's even more important to test this on real hardware to
>> rule out issues with the virtualized network drivers.
>
> Simon, I have tested it on real hardware, and was amazed at the performance slump.

Thank you for actually testing it!!! That helps eliminate a stack of factors.

> After that, I've reproduced it with VMWare Workstation and had exactly the same performance drop. (without installing vmware tools)