Re: proxy performance

Sumeet Singh <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:51:07 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.mod-proxy
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Pavan Balaji wrote:

>No. I meant apache 2.0 was giving about 1.5 times better performance :-).
>Sorry about the confusion.
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Thanks.

Btw, can you expand on the following ?

"Anyways, the proxy forwarding is still giving terrible performance (as compared to running it just as a webserver) -- about 2-2.5 times worse."


-sumeet

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>"Being happy doesn't mean that everything's perfect... It just means that
>you have decided to see Beyond the Imperfections"  -- Rash
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>On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Sumeet Singh wrote:
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>>Pavan Balaji wrote:
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>>>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).
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>>-sumeet
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>>>-- Pavan
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>>>   =======================================================
>>>       Pavan Balaji,           |    774, Dreese Labs,
>>>       1584, Worthington St,   |    2015, Neil Avenue,
>>>       Columbus, OH43201       |    Columbus, OH43210
>>>       (614) 327 0973          |    (614) 292 8458
>>>   =======================================================
>>>
>>>"Being happy doesn't mean that everything's perfect... It just means that
>>>you have decided to see Beyond the Imperfections"  -- Rash
>>>
>>>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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>>>>-sumeet
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