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You can use Siege [1] in a similar manner as AB and it can support newline separated URL files and pick random URL's. [1]:http://freshmeat.net/projects/siege/ Cheers, On Saturday 10 April 2010 03:46:56 Blargy wrote: > I am about to deploy Solr into our production environment and I would like > to do some benchmarking to determine how many slaves I will need to set > up. Currently the only way I know how to benchmark is to use Apache > Benchmark but I would like to be able to send random requests to the > Solr... not just one request over and over. > > I have a sample data set of 5000 user entered queries and I would like to > be able to use AB to benchmark against all these random queries. Is this > possible? > > FYI our current index is ~1.5 gigs with ~5m documents and we will be using > faceting quite extensively. Are average requests per/day is ~2m. We will be > running RHEL with about 8-12g ram. Any idea how many slaves might be > required to handle our load? > > Thanks > Markus Jelsma - Technisch Architect - Buyways BV http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 050-8536620 / 06-50258350
