Hello Jeremy, On Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:52:04 -0500 Jeremy Cowgar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone have some example sites run w/Spiffy? How robust is Spiffy? I have a > site that is currently handling ~ 2.5 million hits/mo, or on average 51 a > second. It's currently backed by MySQL and is using almost no cache due to > poor design (not totally my fault). > > It's a long story, but the current code base is of almost no value and I am > contemplating a rewrite. First and foremost with caching at the front line. > I am thinking of putting something like Spiffy behind Lighttpd and using > mod_cml, so that the cache system achieves near static html performance. > > The only thing Spiffy would be responsible for is the dynamic, non-cachable > items, which should be minimal. I know it's silly, but I do not have hard > numbers on what that would be, but guessing it would probably be down to > about 10% of the requests, 222k/mo, or 5 per minute on average (which is a > bad way to figure because we get 90% of activity during 11am-12pm EST. > > Is Spiffy up to something like this? Maybe you can simulate a real-world load using a benchmark tool, so you can get an idea about how Spiffy would react in such a situation. Httperf (http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/) is a good tool for benchmarking web-servers. Best wishes, Mario _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users