From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 24 9:48:26 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5940937B423 for ; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:48:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f3OGmME08134; Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:48:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:48:22 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Alan Tegel Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about Posix Threads Message-ID: <20010424094822.O1790@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20010424092346.M1790@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from alan.tegel@openwave.com on Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 09:33:40AM -0700 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Alan Tegel [010424 09:33] wrote: > How we got to this question: > ---------------------------- > We have been using 5 Compaq 8500's running NT 4.0 using Loadrunner > (Mercury Interactive) to test the load. The Linux box was barely > able to hold the load, but it's support tool sar, (vm|mp)stat left a > fellow engineer to be disgusted. So, I recompiled Apache on > Solaris 8 on a 420R and he didn't have a problem. Since we have 4 > Compaq 5500's available, we were looking at alternatives to what > was initially installed. Test load of 1200/1500 http connections/sec > > Other engineers in the group started to ask question about how > well FreeBSD handled Posix threads and what the limitations were. > Since I opened my mouth, I said I would ask a few questions. And > being a FreeBSD fan, I decided to push you guys.... The other > alternatives were Linux and Solaris x86.... What version of apache are you using? Only apache 2.x uses threads, are you using apache 2.x? Well anyhow, it'd be interesting to see what happens when you try FreeBSD, be sure to keep me in the loop, I may be able to assist with some performance tuning tricks as I doubt FreeBSD will be able to handle the kind of load you want to throw at it out of the box. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message