Performance Problems.. Server hardware smoked by $500 box?

[Robert Watson]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Adam C. Migus wrote:

> >>(Production WEB now that it's using apache2. Since we're new to apache2,
> >>it's gonna be certainly hokie)
> >
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> >This is all speculation of course, but it could be that differences in
> >Apache version make up most of the performance difference you see.
...
> Thus threading is irrelavent unless he's specifically enabled them, 
> which, he cannot be using since he's using PHP, which doesn't work with 
> apache2 threading.  I use apache2 on FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE and find 
> performance to be as good or better than apache1.
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Well, what I was actually trying to get at, albeit indirectly, is that to
properly understand the performance differences between the
configurations, the best approach is probably to address one variable at a
time: use identical software configurations for the two boxes, and then
twiddle the variables and see what the impact of each change is on both
boxes.  I.e., first sync up the apache versions on the two configurations,
and see if the performance gap remains.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories