Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:14:25 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: linux 2.2.19pre and thttpd (VM-global problem?) |
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On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 08:06:57PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 06:50:18PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Your cgi will keep the other CPU occupied, or run two of them. thttpd has > > superb scaling properties compared to say apache. > > I think with 8 CPUs and 8 NICs (usual benchmark setup) you want more than 1 cpu
That's a good benchmark setup when the benchmark requires a single machine.
In the real world it often makes a lot of sense though to use a cluster of cheap single CPU machines behind a load balancer (gives you better fault tolerance and is likely cheaper)
For these thttpd is a nice web server.
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