[Zope] Zope in Windows is faster than Linux ???

Brian Lloyd brian@digicool.com
Fri, 6 Oct 2000 11:30:39 -0400


> Concurrency Level:      25
> Time taken for tests:   1.807 seconds
> Complete requests:      1000
> Failed requests:        137
>    (Connect: 0, Length: 137, Exceptions: 0)
> Non-2xx responses:      864
> Total transferred:      660974 bytes
> HTML transferred:       473471 bytes
> Requests per second:    553.40
> Transfer rate:          365.79 kb/s received
> 
> Linux--------
> 
> Concurrency Level:      25
> Time taken for tests:   7.688 seconds
> Complete requests:      1000
> Failed requests:        0
> Total transferred:      595000 bytes
> HTML transferred:       396000 bytes
> Requests per second:    130.07
> Transfer rate:          77.39 kb/s received
> 
> There's a big difference in the number of requests per second, 
> four times more in the > Windows machine. Anyone knows why? Does 
> it mean that Zope running in Windows is better than in Linux?

No - look at your results. Every request failed on the win32
box (and they all succeeded on linux). You have some sort of 
problem in your windows setup, and you'll always get higher
throughput for errors than you can for completed requests...


Brian Lloyd        brian@digicool.com 
Software Engineer  540.371.6909              
Digital Creations  http://www.digicool.com