Justin Erenkrantz <justin_at_erenkrantz.com> writes:
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> wrote:
>> Perhaps I wasn't clear. The traffic using ra_serf is 2.2 times as much
>> as using ra_neon; see the (currently) last comment on the issue Philip
>> links to.
>
> I definitely don't see that locally - I only see about a 20-25% gap -
> which from looking at the traces appears to generally be due to the
> extra PROPFIND requests.
>
> Here's what I see for a checkout of svn trunk -
> http(s)://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk
>
> Neon (HTTP): 17294674 bytes
> Neon (HTTPS): 17543641 bytes
>
> Serf (HTTP): 21892977 bytes
> Serf (HTTPS): 19399160 bytes
>
> The reason HTTPS for ra_serf is smaller is that Serf and OpenSSL is a
> pretty optimized path based on network packets... -- justin
Those look like the numbers with mod-deflate in the path. Although
mod-deflate reduces the traffic it pushes up the server CPU because serf
is pushing so much more data through the compressor. It's not much of a
selling point that serf only increases traffic by 20% if it also
increases CPU.
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Received on 2012-05-16 20:59:51 CEST