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FreeBSD 7.0 release annoucement.

Dramatic improvements in performance and SMP scalability shown by various database and other benchmarks, in some cases showing peak performance improvements as high as 350% over FreeBSD 6.X under normal loads and 1500% at high loads. When compared with the best performing Linux kernel (2.6.22 or 2.6.24) performance is 15% better.

Ah I wish I had enough time to play with it. Perhaps when my VPS providers upgrade their offerings I’ll give it a try. ;)

So I had a play with LiteSpeed just recently. Let’s have a look at what the benchmark says.

Tool used: ApacheBench, Version 2.0.40-dev <$Revision: 1.146 $> apache-2.0

Benchmark object: My Wordpress blog (homepage), of course I made an exact copy of the current blog you’re seeing to my VPS box (which has both Apache and LiteSpeed installed).

Both Apache and LiteSpeed use default configuration parameters. Since the benchmark was done on the same server, hardware is the same, however there are some software differences.

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