I just did the test on a new build of 1.5.1_ALPHA..  and unfortunately
performance is not measurably better.  I'm not using pipes anywhere..
Traffique2000 is remarkably simple, as is thttpd..  I can provide
the traffique source if anyone is interested in using it as a
performance tool.. it's about 229 lines of code.

Basically, what it does is it keeps track of the number of sessions
open..  if the number is less than a desired number, it opens the
connects (nonblocking) and puts them into a "ready-to-write" FD_SET;
when the fd's become ready to write to, an http get request is written
to them and then they're moved to a "ready-to-read" FD_SET; then,
they're drained until EOF and closed.

Mike

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 04:27:36PM -0800, Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:42:20PM -0800, Michael Lyle wrote:
> > 
> > We're using a pair of Dell Poweredge 350's with 2 i82559 onboard NIC's.
> > They're set up to be thttpd servers and to retrieve pages from each other.
> 
> Hmmm.  Also:
> 
> 3) Depending on which version of that Ethernet chip you have, it may
>    have hardware checksum support.  We don't currently use that, but
>    it's possible other systems do.

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