Not comparing apples to apples here, but my initial benchmarks turned up some interesting results.
Linux box ripon:
ab -n 1000 -c 5 http://ripon/snkpage.html
Server Software: Apache/2.0.46
Server Hostname: ripon
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /snkpage.html
Document Length: 187 bytes
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 0.275 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Broken pipe errors: 0
Total transferred: 451000 bytes
HTML transferred: 187000 bytes
Requests per second: 3636.36 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 1.38 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.28 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 1640.00 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connnection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 0 0.1 0 3
Processing: 0 1 0.2 1 4
Waiting: 0 0 0.1 0 3
Total: 0 1 0.2 1 4
WARING: The median and mean for the waiting time are not within a normal deviation
These results are propably not that reliable.
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 1
66% 1
75% 1
80% 1
90% 1
95% 1
98% 1
99% 1
100% 4 (last request)
FreeBSD box mitnick:
ab -n 1000 -c 5 http://mitnick/snkpage.html
Server Software: Apache/1.3.34
Server Hostname: mitnick
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /snkpage.html
Document Length: 187 bytes
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 0.581414 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 467000 bytes
HTML transferred: 187000 bytes
Requests per second: 1719.94 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 2.907 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 0.581 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 784.29 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 0 0 0.1 0 2
Processing: 1 2 0.7 2 7
Waiting: 0 1 0.8 2 6
Total: 1 2 0.7 2 7
WARNING: The median and mean for the waiting time are not within a normal deviation
These results are probably not that reliable.
Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
50% 2
66% 2
75% 3
80% 3
90% 3
95% 3
98% 4
99% 4
100% 7 (longest request)
How can that be explained?
