Here are my results. <br><br>Drupal 5, is today&#39;s checkout, HEAD is also today&#39;s checkout.<br><br>Used ab2 -n20 <a href="http://5.example.com">http://5.example.com</a><br>HEAD<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 19.78 [#/sec] (mean)
<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 23.93 [#/sec] (mean)<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 19.81 [#/sec] (mean)<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 19.85 [#/sec] (mean)<br><br>Used ab2 -n20 <a href="http://head.example.com">http://head.example.com
</a><br>Drupal 5<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 18.58 [#/sec] (mean)<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 21.73 [#/sec] (mean)<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 18.35 [#/sec] (mean)<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 28.12 [#/sec] (mean)<br><br>Server is an AMD 64 3000+ with a SATA 7200 Disk with 1GB RAM
<br>Ubuntu Edgy 6.10, Apache 2.0.55, MySQL 5.0.24, PHP 5.1.6<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Karoly Negyesi</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:karoly@negyesi.net">karoly@negyesi.net</a>&gt; wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">It is there. Please try enabling all core modules in Drupal 5 and bench the front page as anon. Then try the same in Drupal 
6-dev.I am really interested in results.<br><br>&gt; In particular, we need benchmarking help, soon I will post a simpler version which does a permission check for every menu item. I wonder how bad that is...<br>&gt;<br></blockquote>
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