From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T13:38:51+09:00
Subject: Re: cry for help - make this faster.

ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> 
>> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>>
>>> yes, it will require deep ruby and 'c' knowledge
>>>
>>>   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/acgi/acgi-0.1.0/README
>>>
>>> and, obviously
>>>
>>>   http://codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/acgi/
>>>
>>> i think it's a potentially powerful idea.  if you know how to make it
>>> faster,
>>> please do so and send in a patch.  at this point only a factor of 2x is
>>> need
>>> to close the gap on fastcgi.  at this point the emphasis is on making
>>> it as
>>> fast as possible.  scalibility and portability might come next.
>>>
>>> good luck.
>>>
>>> -a
> 
>> Hmmm ... by portability do you mean "runs on other than Linux?" :)
> 
> i'm afraid so - sigh...
> 
> on a side note, i hear 2.6.17 will auto-tune the tcp-ip stack, that
> ought to
> make for a fast web app server...

I was thinking Tux, actually. :)

>> What sort of performance testing framework are you using?
> 
> just ab ;-)

There are quite a few out there.