[ILUG] windows vs. linux comparison

[John P. Looney]

 Anyone there with a copy of ab (apachebench), and a hold of a windows
webserver ? Basically, as far as I can tell, you can make a windows
webserver have a baby if it gets more than five concurrent connections
with apachebench...

 Try something like; 

    ab -c 20 -n 1000 http://192.168.2.2/

 On a box I have here, the most I can do is:

    ab -c 5 -n 1000 http://192.168.2.2/

 on Windows (win2000 workstation). Padraig here reckon's it's because
windows has a short listen queue (of five), and Linux/Solaris don't have a
limit...try it on linux, and you should be able to get to three or four
hundred concurrent connections before it has trouble.

Kate

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