----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:49 PM Subject: RE: Finer grain performance indicators
> The only way to really measure the performance of your application is > with load testing tools. Simply looking at the time it takes to process > a single request is generally not that useful. I disagree, load testing comes after you have performance tuned the application for single requests, the execution times will point you to areas of code that need improvement, or optimization, load testing can help point you to bottle necks exosed when the throughput is much higher than the single request. Execution times will help you optimize the code, load testing will help you optimize the logic. > However, an execution > time above 250ms is just plain slow. That is entirely relative - if you are doing a query manipulating 40,000 rows and your server is running on an old 486 with 64mb of ram then 250ms would be pretty bloody quick (magic box quick!), and if you are displaying a simple "Hello World" template on an Athlon 1700XP with 2 gig of usable Ram and a 3 gig Ram Disk containing your entire operating system, then 250ms is pretty slow. --- James Sleeman Innovative Media Ltd Ph: (03) 377 6262 http://www.websolutions.co.nz CAUTION: The information contained in this email message is confidential and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient you are notified that any use, dissemination, distribution or reproduction of this message is prohibited. If you have received this message in error please notify the sender immediately and destroy the original message and any attachments. Views expressed in this communication may not be those of Innovative Media Ltd. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists