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Hiyas.. I was interested if there is any software that can benchmark or
test out your web server with heavy loads or whatever??? Basicly I want
to compare our current web server (NCSA 1.5.2) to apache 1.2b10 .. Main
reason is test and justify witheror not to move to apache or not

I always read that apache is better, but never see any benchmarks
or testing compareed to it..

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Quote:>Hiyas.. I was interested if there is any software that can benchmark or
>test out your web server with heavy loads or whatever??? Basicly I want
>to compare our current web server (NCSA 1.5.2) to apache 1.2b10 .. Main
>reason is test and justify witheror not to move to apache or not
>I always read that apache is better, but never see any benchmarks
>or testing compareed to it..

However, simply running the program will not be an effective or
fair test for either NCSA or Apache.  All benchmarks tell you is
how well a server performs on that benchmark.  In fact, with some
benchmarks the better servers actually perform worse by _design_
because the bencmark is testing a bogus measure that really has
nothing to do with performance.  Performance is a very site specific
thing and it takes a significant amount of effort to design and
implement a benchmark that reflects your needs.

Quote:

>However, simply running the program will not be an effective or
>fair test for either NCSA or Apache.  All benchmarks tell you is
>how well a server performs on that benchmark.  In fact, with some
>benchmarks the better servers actually perform worse by _design_
>because the bencmark is testing a bogus measure that really has
>nothing to do with performance.  Performance is a very site specific
>thing and it takes a significant amount of effort to design and
>implement a benchmark that reflects your needs.

Jay