Re: [us...@httpd] Re: Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Jarrod Slick
So, I should be more specific with my question: to the end of determining strictly which webserver is more efficient do you see any problems with this type of setup? More 'efficient' I think you mean. Is that not exactly what I said? And another question: how would you do it differen

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Eric Covener wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jarrod Slick > wrote: What about having a private VLAN between a testing machine and the apache machine. I suppose that would solve the resource separation problem between the benchmarking tool and

Re: [us...@httpd] Re: Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:44 AM, LuKreme wrote: Run thousands of test across multiple connections from multiple sources for each server if you want to see what the performance is ACTUALLY like. Unfortunately multiple sources is impractical for me unless you want to donate some hardware. Tha

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:45 AM, Tom Evans wrote: On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Jarrod Slick > wrote: I'm curious -- why do you think that the results will be inconsistent? If anything I would be inclined to think that using localhost would improve consistency as extraneous variab

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-15 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Tommy M. McGuire wrote: Jarrod Slick wrote: All tests will be performed on localhost. I did not want to comment since I am not an Apache nor LiteSpeed performance expert, but I rather suspect that will invalidate any results you get. At least it will make

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-14 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Scott Gifford > wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:08 AM, Jarrod Slick > wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Scott Gifford wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Jarrod Slick > wrote: Apache Users, As some of you may or may not know a fairly

Re: [us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-12 Thread Jarrod Slick
On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Scott Gifford wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 1:31 AM, Jarrod Slick > 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

[us...@httpd] Apache vs LiteSpeed

2010-01-12 Thread Jarrod Slick
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,