Re: [Erlyaws-list] Yaws, Apache, sendfile

[Claes W. <kl...@ta...>]

Dmitrii Dimandt wrote:
> We all know about the wonderful benchmark called Apache vs. Yaws, 
> http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html
> 
> However, there are some sceptics who say that Apache will outperform 
> Yaws when sending files/large files because Apache uses sendfile which 
> runs in kernel space. So my question is: How will Yaws perform in the 
> above benchmark if each process needs to send a 10 MB file?
> 

I'm pretty sure that apache would outperform yaws here - unless
the number of concurrent clients requesting these 10M files
is large - in which case I think yaws would do fine.

Anyway, the test is mostly uninteresting, also building a sendfile
driver and use that for large files in Yaws is a p.o.c - it would probably
take several hours to do ....


/klacke