Re: 2.2.5 optimizations for web benchmarks?

Matthew Kirkwood (weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk)
Fri, 16 Apr 1999 10:52:05 +0100 (GMT)


On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, David Luyer wrote:

> > If you want to answer the question "how fast is linux as a web server"
> > consider benchmarking using Zeus (www.zeus.co.uk) too.
>
> Benchmark Boa. The Debian package of it would be an easy target. The
> web server executable is around 48k in size. (see www.boa.org)

It's single threaded - that means it won't take advantage of SMP, and
probably won't scale for large sites.

And it doesn't do virtual hosts, so it's not an awful lot of use in the
real world...

Matthew.

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