Both of these companies offer Rack mounting options that will let me go now. I hope that Apple makes true enterprise hardware soon, but I can start immediately.
I'm not going to prerelease the results, but they will be available soon. Poorly done benchmarks are worse than none at all. A benchmark based on compiling code for different processor architectures is an example of a very poor benchmark.
My benchmarks are real world, web application suite numbers. Nothing special, nothing rigged, I have a 20M website that's a combination of static pages, static images, PHP/mySQL dynamic pages, Perl forms-driven pages that write and update flat files and PHP/mySQL pages that update the database.
The benchmark itself is script driven and simulates users on the site. There are 10 different user scripts, and they run 500 times each in 10 different fixed orders - currently as 10 simultaneous users. I'm looking at adding clients to increase the number of user tests, as I've been unable to max out the OSX box with this test suite.
The simulation results are mined from the Apache log file and show the activity that you would expect from this near-real world example. CPU time is not captured, only successful page requests. Total elapsed time is interesting.
The only thing that is "rigged" in any way, is that the pages are all set no-cache, so that all images and pages are delivered each time they are requested. As far as I can tell based on status returns, there is no caching being done.
The website and the client scripts will be available to download from the benchmark page so you can run them yourselves if you wish. If you do run them, running the analysis script against the log file will allow you to upload your results to the benchmark server - should be an interesting set of data for different server configurations.
I will say that the dual 500mhz OSX Server currently out performs the Dual 850mhz Intel Linuz box by a significant margin.
I know that some will still not believe, but that's OK. You can run these tests yourself and post your findings on the benchmark page.
I've nearly completed a web serving benchmark with multiple PPC configurations running OSX Server, and Intel and AMD hardware running Linux.
The results look nothing like the compiling benchmark, and have convinced me to start a web hosting company using OSX Server on Macintosh hardware.
The benchmark utilities will be downloadable and you can run them on your own favorite hardware. Benchmark requires PHP and mySQL database support, but will run on more than just Apache. I'll also set up a site where you can upload your results - configuration and resulting data.
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I'm not going to prerelease the results, but they will be available soon. Poorly done benchmarks are worse than none at all. A benchmark based on compiling code for different processor architectures is an example of a very poor benchmark.
My benchmarks are real world, web application suite numbers. Nothing special, nothing rigged, I have a 20M website that's a combination of static pages, static images, PHP/mySQL dynamic pages, Perl forms-driven pages that write and update flat files and PHP/mySQL pages that update the database.
The benchmark itself is script driven and simulates users on the site. There are 10 different user scripts, and they run 500 times each in 10 different fixed orders - currently as 10 simultaneous users. I'm looking at adding clients to increase the number of user tests, as I've been unable to max out the OSX box with this test suite.
The simulation results are mined from the Apache log file and show the activity that you would expect from this near-real world example. CPU time is not captured, only successful page requests. Total elapsed time is interesting.
The only thing that is "rigged" in any way, is that the pages are all set no-cache, so that all images and pages are delivered each time they are requested. As far as I can tell based on status returns, there is no caching being done.
The website and the client scripts will be available to download from the benchmark page so you can run them yourselves if you wish. If you do run them, running the analysis script against the log file will allow you to upload your results to the benchmark server - should be an interesting set of data for different server configurations.
I will say that the dual 500mhz OSX Server currently out performs the Dual 850mhz Intel Linuz box by a significant margin.
I know that some will still not believe, but that's OK. You can run these tests yourself and post your findings on the benchmark page.
I'll publish the URL soon.
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I've nearly completed a web serving benchmark with multiple PPC configurations running OSX Server, and Intel and AMD hardware running Linux.
The results look nothing like the compiling benchmark, and have convinced me to start a web hosting company using OSX Server on Macintosh hardware.
The benchmark utilities will be downloadable and you can run them on your own favorite hardware. Benchmark requires PHP and mySQL database support, but will run on more than just Apache. I'll also set up a site where you can upload your results - configuration and resulting data.
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