Re: [OT] Performance Requirements

2008-07-20 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Thank you all for the answers and please apologize my late answer, my family obligated me to a 10 day vacation without internet... I added Franks recommendation (mainly because it was the first to come :-)) to my recommendations to the client, and we both thought them reasonable... However, now he

Re: [OT] Performance Requirements

2008-07-03 Thread Peter Lin
there's plenty of papers on the topic on the internet, including the ones listed on tomcat's website. have you looked at the resource page? http://tomcat.apache.org/resources.html On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:05 AM, Filip Hanik - Dev Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > there is one criteria that I al

Re: [OT] Performance Requirements

2008-07-03 Thread Filip Hanik - Dev Lists
there is one criteria that I always use, and that is "user response time" this can work for almost any webapp that has some sort of "real" user in front of it. 50 to 100ms would be excellent and very aggressive, but it depends on the app itself of course. 2-3 seconds for a complete page load is

Re: [OT] Performance Requirements

2008-07-02 Thread Frank W. Zammetti
It might be a little simplistic, but we've always used a simple "100 user" metric: if we can simulate 100 simultaneous users on a site, or webapp (in the sense of RIAs) and all the responses across the app come back in reasonable times (which you can define variably as you see fit), then we gen

[OT] Performance Requirements

2008-07-02 Thread Leon Rosenberg
Hi all, recently I was asked by someone to define performance requirements for a site without even knowing it (the site). The task was to deliver standard requirements valid for most sites (or portal-like sites). I answered that it's probably impossible without knowing the type of media delivered,