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From: doug@qnx.com (Doug Santry)
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: 26 Nov 1996 15:00:36 -0500
Organization: QNX Software Systems
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In article <329ABAD6.237C@avl.co.at>,
Klaftenegger Bernd  <klafti@avl.co.at> wrote:
>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.

Why not run Apache on FreeBSD and then run some benchmarks.

DJS