> > Of course nobody has addressed the problem that Apache is optimised for
> > the real world not benchmarks and that its not the right server to use
> > for a benching exercise with the rather poor benchmark tools used today.
>
> Someone needs to write a new benchmark. It's not exactly trivial to
> rig up a load of many more slow connections, but that's a lot more
> realistic to today's Internet than the mythical "one server with 400
> megabits of connection to the Internet serving fast clients".
>
> Have you ever priced 400 megabits of connection to the Internet? It
> costs a lot more than that hardware.
Has anybody ever considered using NIST's network simulation stuff for
benchmarking purposes? The home page is
http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/. It basically can produce an
artificial packet loss and latency, thereby providing a much more
realistic network environment for benchmarks than common benchmarks
currently do.
Ralf
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