[Info-vax] Apache + mod_php performance

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/2/2024 9:31 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 10/1/2024 4:17 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 10/1/2024 3:45 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>> In article <vd9mqn$1cm1v$1 at dont-email.me>,
>>> Dave Froble  <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>> On 9/27/2024 9:11 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> [snip]
>>>>> I believe that server config supporting keep alive
>>>>> causing performance to drop to 1/10'th for clients
>>>>> not using keep alive is a bug.
>>>>
>>>> Feature ...
>>>
>>> Yes, it is a feature, despite this report of a non-problem.
>>>
>>> In this case, later posts revealed the real culprit: Arne's test
>>> program did not follow the protocol, and was not sending
>>> `Connection: close` with an HTTP/1.1 request; in response, the
>>> server (correctly) kept the connection open waiting for the
>>> client to send another request.
>>
>> It does not really make any sense for the test client
>> to send "Connection: close".
> 
> It does if the server is holding the connection open, waiting for more.

Not really.

The real goal is to make it work well for users not to make the
test program work well.

Having the test program send "Connection: close" will improve
performance for the test program.

But it does not improve anything for the web browsers that
does not send "Connection: close".

Arne