Does Node.js perform badly on Windows, surely it can't be slower than apache for basic I/O
Question: Are the result that i'm getting reasonable? Is there anything which could have such an impact in reducing the number of requests per second? Edit: A friend of mine has just benchmarked the same application on Linux and the average r/s was approx 7000. Edit #2: I've checked the CPU usage of Node.exe, and it's only using 5-6% of the cpu. Surely this figure should be 12% on a quad core machine, 8 thread CPU when running on a single thread if truly under load? I've written a Node.js application (running Node v0.6.10) and benchmarked it with apachebench: ab -c 256 -n 50000 http:/