仔细看下他的测试方式，这个比较是非常不公平的
What do we measure and how?
We use a 16 node cluster running at SICS. We plot throughput vs. parallel load.
Machine 1 has a server (Apache or Yaws).
Machine 2 requests 20 KByte pages from machine 1. It does this in tight a loop requesting a new page as soon as it has received a page from the server. From this we derive a throughput figure, which is plotted in the horizontal scale on the graph. A typical value (800) means the throughput is 800 KBytes/sec.
Machines 3 to 16 generate load.
Each machine starts a large number of parallel sessions.
Each session makes a very slow request to fetch a one byte file from machine 1. This is done by sending very slow HTTP GET requests (we break up the GET requests and send them character at a time, with about ten seconds between each character)
apache的链接处理机制是 开线程或者进程来处理请求 按它的测试方法 你非常慢速的8w请求 导致apache开大量的线程来处理。而能开多少线程取决于操作系统的能力 这还是其次 大量的线程处理活跃的链接导致大量的thread content switch。 apache 挂了不奇怪。 而erlang的线程相大于c语言的一个数据结构 erl_process你开多少取决于你的内存 大量的但是慢速的链接刚好适合poll事件dispatch， 以epoll的能力（俺测试过epoll30w）能够轻松处理。 这个测试与其说测试web服务器的性能 不如说 测试服务器的进程生成能力。
俺的测试是这样的：.
./yaws --conf yaws.conf --erlarg "+K true +P 1024000" #epoll 最多1024000个进程 内核都已经调优过
yaws.conf 的内容：
auth_log = false
max_num_cached_files = 8000
max_num_cached_bytes = 6000000
大家都用 ab -c 1000 -n 1000000 http://192.168.0.98:8000/bomb.gif 来测
果然发现yaws的性能也是非常一般 大概也就是3K左右.
各位看下 strace 的结果就知道了：
accept(10, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(5644), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.0.97")}, [16]) = 11
fcntl64(11, F_GETFL) = 0x2 (flags O_RDWR)
fcntl64(11, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
getsockopt(10, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [0], [4]) = 0
getsockopt(10, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [0], [4]) = 0
getsockopt(10, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], [4]) = 0
getsockopt(10, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [0], [4]) = 0
getsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], [4]) = 0
getsockopt(11, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [0], [4]) = 0
setsockopt(11, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [0], 4) = 0
setsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], 4) = 0
getsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], [4]) = 0
getsockopt(11, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [0], [4]) = 0
setsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], 4) = 0
getsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], [4]) = 0
getsockopt(11, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [0], [4]) = 0
setsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_KEEPALIVE, [0], 4) = 0
setsockopt(11, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [0], 4) = 0
setsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], 4) = 0
getsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], [4]) = 0
getsockopt(11, SOL_IP, IP_TOS, [0], [4]) = 0
setsockopt(11, SOL_TCP, TCP_NODELAY, [0], 4) = 0
setsockopt(11, SOL_SOCKET, SO_PRIORITY, [0], 4) = 0
recv(11, "GET /bomb.gif HTTP/1.0\r\nUser-Age"..., 8192, 0) = 100
getpeername(11, {sa_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(5644), sin_addr=inet_addr("192.168.0.97")}, [16]) = 0
clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {110242, 326908594}) = 0
stat64("/var/www/html/bomb.gif", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
access("/var/www/html/bomb.gif", R_OK) = 0
