On 2/5/07, Erik Hatcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...What numbers are folks capturing? What techniques are you using to capture numbers?...
I've been using my httpstone utility (http://code.google.com/p/httpstone/) along with ab (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html) to generate many concurrent search requests, based on semi-random query URLs generated by shell scripts. The goal was to find out, on our hardware, how many typical queries per second we could serve with acceptable response times (less than 2.5 seconds). In our case, we found out that 100-200 requests per second were not a problem, and stopped testing as this is much more than we need currently. So I don't have precise numbers, but we know that we're safe with our current load. HTH, but it's more empirical than structured testing ;-) -Bertrand
