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From: Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com>
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Subject: Re: Apache + mod_php performance
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 09:31:48 -0400
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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@dont-email.me>,
>> Dave Froble  <davef@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".
>
> Arne
>

It does if the server is holding the connection open, waiting for more.

Not claiming this happens in the real world.  Things aren't that clean.

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