mod_perl It makes me sad people aren't using it.

Hear! Hear!

I reproduced your script on my lowly kimsufi and online servers; I'm getting awful numbers compared to yours, do you have any idea why that is? something in the hardware maybe?

KIMSUFI Intel  ATOM N2800     2c/4t     1,86GHz     4Go DDR3 1066MHz 

Server Software:        Apache
Server Hostname:        vincentveyron.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /rocks
Document Length:        20 bytes

Concurrency Level:      3
Time taken for tests:   2.081 seconds
Complete requests:      2500
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      437500 bytes
HTML transferred:       50000 bytes
Requests per second:    1201.57 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       2.497 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       0.832 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent reques
+ts)
Transfer rate:          205.35 [Kbytes/sec] received


ONLINE Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU  C2338  @ 1.74GHz 4Go 

Server Software:        Apache
Server Hostname:        vincentveyron.com
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /rocks
Document Length:        20 bytes

Concurrency Level:      3
Time taken for tests:   83.870 seconds
Complete requests:      25000
Failed requests:        0
Total transferred:      4375000 bytes
HTML transferred:       500000 bytes
Requests per second:    298.08 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       10.064 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       3.355 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent reques
+ts)
Transfer rate:          50.94 [Kbytes/sec] received
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