lighttpd & image serving benchmark

The difference between serving image from MySQL & from a static file is huge so there is clearly no question which one is better in term of performance.

ab -n 1000 -c 10 25131.php
Requests per second:    66.33 [#/sec] (mean)
ab -n 1000 -c 10 25131.gif
Requests per second:    632.39 [#/sec] (mean)