The previous tests were with APC on.<br><br>At a whim, I ran them with APC off, and here are the results.<br><br>$ ab2 -n1000 <a href="http://head.example.com/|">http://head.example.com/|</a> egrep &quot;^Req|^Time&quot;<br>
Time taken for tests:&nbsp;&nbsp; 175.623664 seconds<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5.69 [#/sec] (mean)<br>Time per request:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 175.624 [ms] (mean)<br>Time per request:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 175.624 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)<br><br>
$ ab2 -n1000 <a href="http://5.example.com/|">http://5.example.com/|</a> egrep &quot;^Req|^Time&quot;<br>Time taken for tests:&nbsp;&nbsp; 183.491533 seconds<br>Requests per second:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 5.45 [#/sec] (mean)<br>Time per request:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
183.492 [ms] (mean)<br>Time per request:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 183.492 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)<br><br>Still HEAD is better, but not by a big margin.<br>-- <br><a href="http://2bits.com">2bits.com</a><br><a href="http://2bits.com">
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