Don -
Thanks for the reply. All modules have been disabled except for nssock, and I simply copied the default AOLserver page to the www directory of an uncustomized OpenACS 3.2.4 install -- it's a static page (see http://electricspeed.com/aolserver.html).
However, the nsd.tcl file for this server is configured so that files having the .html extension are parsed as ADP pages. BUT, I get similar results after giving aolserver.html a different extension so that it isn't parsed as an ADP page (i.e. aolserver.shtml):
[nsadmin@roam aolserver]$ /usr/local/apache/bin/ab -n 700 -c 50 http://electricspeed.com/aolserver.shtml
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3c <$Revision: 1.45 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2000 The Apache Group, http://www.apache.org/
Server Software: AOLserver/3.2+ad10
Server Hostname: electricspeed.com
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /aolserver.shtml
Document Length: 1689 bytes
Concurrency Level: 50
Time taken for tests: 110.872 seconds
Complete requests: 700
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 1473500 bytes
HTML transferred: 1182300 bytes
Requests per second: 6.31
Transfer rate: 13.29 kb/s received
Connnection Times (ms)
min avg max
Connect: 0 3 34
Processing: 1656 7669 28536
Total: 1656 7672 28570