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

2010-01-15 Thread Tommy M. McGuire
Jarrod Slick wrote: > 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 resu

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

2010-01-15 Thread Scott Gifford
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Jarrod Slick wrote: [ ... ] > And another question: how would you do it differently? Sure, in an ideal > world I could assemble my own botnet and then blast my corporate network > with a gigabit of distributed traffic multiple times for each webserver -- > but ob

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 the web

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

2010-01-15 Thread Eric Covener
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 the web server.  Can you think of any problems > with this t

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 variables like n

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

2010-01-15 Thread Tom Evans
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 variables like network congestion at the time of > testing would

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 i

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

2010-01-15 Thread Tommy M. McGuire
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 it much harder to get any kind of consistent results. --

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 prominent commer

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

2010-01-14 Thread Arnab Ganguly
Basic query, is LiteSpeed an open source ? Can we write our own plugins equivalent to Apache modules which will talk to LiteSpeed ? Thanks in advance. -A 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

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

2010-01-14 Thread Scott Gifford
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 prominent commercial >> webserver, LiteSpeed, claims to outperfo

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

2010-01-13 Thread Jorge Schrauwen
Sounds interesting, You may also want to test things like requesting protected resources (basic, digest)... Maybe some other things like WebDAV (of all servers support it),... ~Jorge On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Jarrod Slick wrote: > > On Jan 13, 2010, at 12:47 AM, Scott Gifford wrote: >

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 of

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

2010-01-12 Thread Scott Gifford
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 of magnitude. They have some internal benchmarks > th

[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,