Game 55: Coco unleashed...

So, Kenny Rogers' wins his eighth in a row.

Yet, it gets marred by Coco making an obscene gesture to the Royals bench after he got the last out in the bottom of the ninth. It wasn't even a save situation! I won't even try to defend it. Groan.

ESPN Motion has the clip.

Way to go, guys. Not.

[/sports/rangers/2005] permanent link

AnandTech benchmarks on Mac OS X concerning Apache...

I know several folks have mentioned the AnandTech benchmarks with respect to MySQL. Read the original AnandTech article. I read it too.

Thinking the Apache results were rather fishy (as I have a dual G5 on my desktop and I've seen better performance than they claim), I sent an email to the author. He promptly replied with his httpd configuration. In the article, he claimed he used Apache 1.3 - however, the config file I received was clearly for 2.0. (Definitions of MPMs, etc, etc.)

I've replied back to him pointing that out; and pointing out that I think flood is a far better performance tester than the dreadful ab. I've not yet received any further response from him.

I've heard unconfirmed reports that httpd 2.x is even faster on Tiger than Panther because 64-bit code is available natively and httpd 2.x runs better on 64-bit platforms than 32-bit ones (due to the time calculations and SSL algorithms).

I'll see about getting some 'real tests' this week on my G5. Who knows - I might confirm them, I might not. We'll see. But, not indicating the difference between 1.3 and 2.0 is wonky.

[/apache] permanent link