Re: proxy performance

Pavan Balaji wrote:

>We had tried this sometime back, and apache 2.0 was giving about 1.5 times
>the performance. But I didn't do any fine tuning stuff, so am not sure how
>reliable these numbers are. Anyways, the proxy forwarding is still giving
>terrible performance (as compared to running it just as a webserver) --
>about 2-2.5 times worse.
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Do you mean to say that when run as a proxy, apache 2.0 with worker-mpm 
does worse than apache 1.3 ? That's surprising, because none of the 
docs/articles that I have read have pointed out such a severe shortage 
in performance (p.s. I am not saying that your results were wrong).

-sumeet

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>On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Sumeet Singh wrote:
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>>Has anybody compared the performance apache 1.3.x running as a proxy
>>server (using mod_proxy) against apache 2.0 (using worker-mpm) ?
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