Webserver performance on VAX [Was: Retrocomputing ... VAMP ...] - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

10 Jun 2012

On 8 June 2012 22:16, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
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  On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 00:07:05 +0100
 David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:

  Retrocomputing with a VAMP stack: VAX, Apache,
MySQL & PHP  About 10 years ago a friend run a web server on a MicroVAX 2000 to
 serve his personal homepage. He netbooted the the NetBSD kernel for the
 MV2k and mounted / from a local SCSI disk connected to the "tape port".
 Though, he used static pages and thttpd. No AMP bloat. 
The VAX has quite different relative performance characteristics to
current standard target x86/arm platforms in terms of memory
bandwidth, context switch cost, function call overhead and suchlike.

I wonder how various web servers perform on a VAX?

Obvious ones to test would be apache (1,2.2 2.4), nginx, thttpd,
bozohttpd (those are just the ones I've used myself), lighttpd. yaws
and mono-xsp could be interesting is erlang and mono compile :)

A simple static test and maybe php with fastcgi for a start.

I'd probably just use apachebench from a fast local x86 box.

Does anyone else have suggestions as to web servers or different tests
that might be interesting?