UPDATE: I upgraded my server from RedHat 6.2 to 7.1, and this allowed me to use an UltraDMA controller for its IDE drives.
<p>For a static html page, performance improved from 6.81 RPS to 27.64 RPS. And for a dynamic page with ~two database queries, performance improved to ~12 RPS.
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[root@roam james]# /usr/local/apache/bin/ab -n 700 -c 20 http://electicspeed.com/aolserver.html
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.html
Document Length: 1689 bytes
Concurrency Level: 20
Time taken for tests: 25.324 seconds
Complete requests: 700
Failed requests: 0
Total transferred: 1534400 bytes
HTML transferred: 1182300 bytes
Requests per second: 27.64
Transfer rate: 60.59 kb/s received
Connnection Times (ms)
min avg max
Connect: 0 1 44
Processing: 175 710 1589
Total: 175 711 1633
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