Comparizon tests FreeBSD 7 Stable (build from ports)
Drupal 7 (some unknown site $) )
ab -c5 -n1000 http://siteurl.demo/
mysql-server 5.1.50
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 34.084 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 78838000 bytes
HTML transferred: 78438000 bytes
Requests per second: 29.34 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 170.418 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 34.084 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 2258.86 [Kbytes/sec] received
mysql-server 5.1.58
make WITH_XCHARSET=all BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes BUILD_STATIC=yes
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 27.332 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 78855000 bytes
HTML transferred: 78455000 bytes
Requests per second: 36.59 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 136.659 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 27.332 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 2817.49 [Kbytes/sec] received
mysql-server 5.1.58
make WITH_XCHARSET=all WITH_FAST_MUTEXES=yes BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes BUILD_STATIC=yes
Concurrency Level: 5
Time taken for tests: 26.168 seconds
Complete requests: 1000
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 78686000 bytes
HTML transferred: 78286000 bytes
Requests per second: 38.22 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 130.838 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 26.168 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 2936.53 [Kbytes/sec] received
percona 5.5.15
Requests per second: 50.54 [#/sec] (mean)