Right now, we just have 2 benchmarks available. One is using zb (ZeusBench) and the other is using ab (ApacheBench). In these 2 particular tests, the client and server are both using rtl8139 (Realtek) chipset-based 10/100 ethernet cards, and both happen to be using the AMD Duron 750.

In addition, both machines are every-day desktop machines, which means that they are both running X, a half-dozen daemons including CUPS, Samba, NFS, and others, but there is no load on them. The network is a comprised of these machines and a 10/100 LinkSys 5 port hub.

Also, please note that because Boa is a single-threaded web server, the load on the server never exceeded 1.00 (at least, not due to Boa. ;-) Running CGI would, of course, be completely different.

First, zb. 

jnelson@client jnelson $ ./zb server /todo.txt -k -t 30 -c 215 

---
Server:                 Boa/0.94.12pre3
Document Length:        2448
Concurency Level:       215
Time taken for tests:   4.736 seconds
Complete requests:      20000
Failed requests:        0
Keep-Alive requests:    20003
Bytes transfered:       53529637
HTML transfered:        48968564
Requests per seconds:   4222.97
Transfer rate:          11302.71 kb/s

Connnection Times (ms)
           min   avg   max
Connect:     0     0    11
Total:       1    37  4704
---

jnelson@client jnelson $ ./ab http://server/todo.txt -k -t 30 -c 215 
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.58 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2001 The Apache Group, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking server (be patient)
Completed 5000 requests
Completed 10000 requests
Completed 15000 requests
Completed 20000 requests
Completed 25000 requests
Completed 30000 requests
Completed 35000 requests
Completed 40000 requests
Completed 45000 requests
Finished 50000 requests
Server Software:        Boa/0.94.12pre3                                       
Server Hostname:        server
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /todo.txt
Document Length:        2448 bytes

Concurrency Level:      215
Time taken for tests:   11.987 seconds
Complete requests:      50000
Failed requests:        0
Broken pipe errors:     0
Keep-Alive requests:    50005
Total transferred:      133813585 bytes
HTML transferred:       122412240 bytes
Requests per second:    4171.19 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       51.54 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.24 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          11163.23 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:        0     0    0.6      0    10
Processing:     1    48  312.8     26 11891
Waiting:        1    48  312.8     26 11891
Total:          1    48  313.2     26 11901

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%     26
  66%     36
  75%     44
  80%     49
  90%     76
  95%    102
  98%    140
  99%    179
 100%  11901 (last request)
jnelson@client jnelson $