[willvarfar]

So we only disagree in edge-case terminology. I think your trying to worm out of your missclassification, but no worries.

Yes, to get these numbers i have had to minimise syscalls. Thats the advantage of hellepoll. I wrote the http server just to release it, as before it was an rtmp server but it was commercial and couldn't be released. That had write buffers usr side too which helped even more.

And i understand what ab and httperf test, and yes i am counting served pages.

Finally, i spend a lot pf time staring at linux perf reports and timecharts.