Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 27 Nov 2001 18:23:31 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: heads-up: preempt kernel and tux NO-GO |
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Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, J Sloan wrote: > > > I have been looking into the tux2 webserver - > > Man, what a thing of beauty. A web benchmark > > that sends the load on the web server to 150 > > when running apache results in a load average > > of maybe 2 when running tux, and much faster > > results to boot - anyway, I digress.... > > Loadavg isn't much of a measure here, it's a measure of the length of the > runnable queue. If you've only got two processes because your server has a > thread per processor, then yes, you'll see lower loadavg, but not lower > load. A real measure would look at idle percentage and throughput.
That's easily done, and we know that load average is a measure of tasks waiting to run - but rather than throw more statistics around, I can say that a Linux desktop running tux remains responsive under a http load that would tend to monopolize it's attention under apache -
Now I'm not knocking apache of course, it's the standard these days, and there's nothing more flexible or reliable - but there is indeed a niche for a small, blindingly fast server like tux - and I intend to explore that niche in coming months.
cu
jjs
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