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Apachebench Test Results for mod_gzip

RCTPDS COMPRESSION TEST - 28.8k modem access

The key statistics are highlighed in yellow. The index.html file used for testing was an exact copy of
Yahoo's 10,495 byte home page as of the date of testing.

EVERY TEST BELOW was performed through a 28.8k modem with the latest and greatest MNP compression technology onboard.

Apache
Benchmark
Version 1.2
 BASELINE
Direct
from
Apache,
NO
compression		 Through
RCTPDS
to
Apache,
NO
compression		 Through
RCTPDS
to
Apache,
WITH
compression		 Direct
from
RCTPDS,
NO
compression		 Direct
from
RCTPDS,
WITH
compression
Server Hostname: rctp.com rctp.com rctp.com rctp.com rctp.com
Server Port: 8192 5073 5073 5073 5073
Document Path: /index.html /index.html /index.html /index.html /index.html
Concurrency Level: 1 1 1 1 1
Complete requests: 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000
Failed requests: 0 1 0 0 0
Total transferred: 10744000 bytes 10733531 bytes 3158000 bytes 10742000 bytes 3024000 bytes
HTML transferred: 10495000 bytes 10484661 bytes 2886000 bytes 10495000 bytes 2886000 bytes
Document Length: 10495 bytes 10495 bytes 2886 bytes 10495 bytes 2886 bytes
Time taken for tests: 4743.069 sec 4723.900 sec 1796.306 sec 1 4742.541 sec 1784.006 sec 2
Requests per second: 0.21 0.21 0.56 0.21 0.56
Transfer rate: 2.27 kb/s 2.27 kb/s 1.76 kb/s 3 2.21 kb/s 1.70 kb/s 3

1 Time saved: 4743.069 - 1796.306 = 2946.763 seconds or 49.11 minutes

2 Time saved: 4743.069 - 1784.006 = 2959.063 seconds or 49.32 minutes

3 The 'Kilobits per second' Transfer rate indicated for compressed documents is lower
because of the significant decrease in the number of bytes actually received. ApacheBench
always reports the 'Document Length' as the number of bytes transmitted from the Server
without considering that it might be compressed data. In the case of a compressed document
the VIRTUAL 'number of bytes received' would be the size of the uncompressed document.
If this value were to be used by ApacheBench during its Kilobits per second computation
then the 'Transfer rate' indication would be significantly higher. 
CPU: Compaq Prolinea with 128MB RAM and 4GB SCSI HD
OS1: SlackWare Linux version 2.0.35
SRV: Apache 1.3.3

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Revised: Oct. 13, 2000

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