hello all. i compiled apache 2.0.48 twice. once using gcc and the other using intel's compiler (icc). i assumed i did the intel one right as ./configure --help said environment variables should be listed in the Var=Value form. anyway the commands i used for ./configure were:

intel - ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache CC=icc --with-ssl=/usr/include/openssl

gcc - ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --with-ssl=/usr/include/openssl

anyway, if that's wrong for compiling with intel, i guess you'll let me know. i'm manually renaming the directories too.

Basically, i'm looking for some kind of command to apache where i can time how long it takes to serve up my test page that has about 150 linked images at an average of 30KB/image. i've been doing so far:

time konqueror http://localhost/~user/test.html

but that requires me to be able to perfectly time when to close konqueror out when the page has finished loading. plus i think there maybe time differences to when konq actually loads and exits.

anyway, is there a better way of seeing the output performance between gcc and icc in regards to apache performance or should i just say fuhgeddaboutid?

Take a look at the benchmarking utility that comes with apache "ab":
man ab

cool. thanks for that info, dave. in case anyone's interested, both are about the same at around .76 seconds for a test of 10 requests (each test run 10 times for each compiled apache version), but the apache compiled with intel's compiler had a few in there that were .1 - .2 seconds while apache never got below .7 seconds. so i went with the apache compiled by intel's compiler.