Joachim Schipper wrote:

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> Just a question - what do you seen when trying from localhost? That

> would eliminate quite a few networking issues, at least.

Not that much different. I would even say that may be not as good

locally. Plus I sent an other example for two different servers with the

test done locally as well. Should show up on marc very soon. Not there yet.
Local:

# http_load -parallel 400 -fetches 2500 -timeout 60 /tmp/www2

2500 fetches, 52 max parallel, 1.42596e+07 bytes, in 20.8623 seconds

5703.82 mean bytes/connection

119.833 fetches/sec, 683507 bytes/sec

msecs/connect: 107.61 mean, 6061.48 max, 1.224 min

msecs/first-response: 39.1055 mean, 6008.52 max, 3.384 min

HTTP response codes:

   code 200 -- 2500
# http_load -parallel 200 -fetches 2500 -timeout 60 /tmp/www2

2500 fetches, 82 max parallel, 1.35499e+07 bytes, in 20.7909 seconds

5419.97 mean bytes/connection

120.245 fetches/sec, 651724 bytes/sec

msecs/connect: 290.4 mean, 6059.02 max, 1.253 min

msecs/first-response: 33.4435 mean, 6004.2 max, 3.459 min

HTTP response codes:

   code 200 -- 2500
Remote:
# http_load -parallel 400 -fetches 2500 -timeout 60 /tmp/www2

2500 fetches, 400 max parallel, 1.34383e+07 bytes, in 18.4801 seconds

5375.32 mean bytes/connection

135.281 fetches/sec, 727177 bytes/sec

msecs/connect: 1016.4 mean, 18012.9 max, 0.406 min

msecs/first-response: 1104.19 mean, 10505.5 max, 3.455 min

HTTP response codes:

   code 200 -- 2500

# http_load -parallel 200 -fetches 2500 -timeout 60 /tmp/www2

2500 fetches, 200 max parallel, 1.36846e+07 bytes, in 23.4292 seconds

5473.85 mean bytes/connection

106.704 fetches/sec, 584083 bytes/sec

msecs/connect: 391.978 mean, 6006.38 max, 0.486 min

msecs/first-response: 742.048 mean, 10497.9 max, 3.403 min

HTTP response codes:

   code 200 -- 2500