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From: Klaftenegger Bernd <klafti@avl.co.at>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix,comp.infosystems.www.servers.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Apache much slower than Netscape ! ?
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 10:39:34 +0100
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Atif Ahmad Khan wrote:
> 
> We have just setup a test Pentium PRO 200 server running Solaris X86 2.5.1
> (all latest patches applied) and got Stronghold secure server (Apache
> with SSL patches) and tried to run some benchmarks.
> 
> We were very excited about the new server and were thinking that it was
> going to beat the pants off of our Netscape 1.2 on FreeBSD 2.1 Pent 90 combo.
> Imagine our surprise when we found out that Netscape is roughly 6 times
> faster.  I am  not sure what to blame, the Solaris OS or Apache or Stronghold.
> 
> Something is not right somewhere and I am not sure how to pin it down.
> Any helpful hints would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Atif Khan
> aak2@ra.msstate.edu

Im quite surprised - I have got the other situation on one of my hosts
-  the Apache server has got about twice the performance the netscape
commercial server has.

-=Bernd=-
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