> The first step would be to try to quantify the performance > difference in serving the actual web pages. Find a single > page that you think is slow on the production system and that > can be accessed without having to be part of a session, and > quantify the performance difference for that page. Remember > you don't care about high load, just a single user request. > You could use apachebench ("ab", comes with apache... > something like "ab -c 1 -n 20 > http://server/path/to/page") or any simple command line tool > that you can time (eg. repeatedly run "time GET http://server/path/to/page"). Do this from as near as possible to the box you are running the web browser that sees the slowness loading.
I ran a couple of tests, and put the one you requested along with one of the more amusing ones to me, below. These request a page that uses PHP sessions (the sessions are kept over NFS) and a couple of database queries. All 3 servers use the same database, tho obviously the database server handles them locally along with handling the files locally vs over NFS like the other two would. I think to sidestep any more testing that may/may not give us more clues, what we're going to press forward with is trying to get another >133Mhz FSB setup in here since they're so cheap and just testing to see if we see similar results if we set it's harddrive up as a mirror of the production web machine. If by using the same OS installation, and only change the underlying hardware, I'd say that would more-than-likely tell us if this is strictly a hardware issue, assuming it performs equally well as the development machine while using the production machine's setup. John Straiton jks@ clickcom.com Clickcom, Inc 704-365-9970x101 Running "ab -c 1 -n 10" on these machines: >Production Web over NFS Benchmarking 209.198.22.161 (be patient).....done Server Software: Apache/2.0 Server Hostname: 209.198.22.161 Server Port: 80 Document Length: 67769 bytes Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 4.918 seconds Complete requests: 10 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 681350 bytes HTML transferred: 677690 bytes Requests per second: 2.03 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 491.80 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 491.80 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 138.54 [Kbytes/sec] received >Production DB serving pages locally Benchmarking 209.198.22.35 (be patient).....done Server Software: Apache/1.3.27 Server Hostname: 209.198.22.35 Server Port: 80 Document Length: 68585 bytes Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 2.232 seconds Complete requests: 10 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 689870 bytes HTML transferred: 685850 bytes Requests per second: 4.48 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 223.20 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 223.20 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 309.08 [Kbytes/sec] received > Development Server over NFS Benchmarking dev.clickcomworks.net (be patient).....done Server Software: Apache/1.3.27 Server Hostname: dev.clickcomworks.net Server Port: 8000 Document Length: 68237 bytes Concurrency Level: 1 Time taken for tests: 1.799 seconds Complete requests: 10 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 686380 bytes HTML transferred: 682370 bytes Requests per second: 5.56 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 179.90 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 179.90 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 381.53 [Kbytes/sec] received Now with "ab -c 10 -n 10", which is just beautiful >Production Web over NFS Benchmarking 209.198.22.161 (be patient).....done Server Software: Apache/2.0 Server Hostname: 209.198.22.161 Server Port: 80 Document Length: 67769 bytes Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 6.424 seconds Complete requests: 10 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 817620 bytes HTML transferred: 813228 bytes Requests per second: 1.56 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 64240.00 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 642.40 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 127.28 [Kbytes/sec] received >Production DB over NFS Benchmarking 209.198.22.35 (be patient).....done Server Software: Apache/1.3.27 Server Hostname: 209.198.22.35 Server Port: 80 Document Length: 68585 bytes Concurrency Level: 10 Time taken for tests: 34.430 seconds Complete requests: 100 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 6898700 bytes HTML transferred: 6858500 bytes Requests per second: 2.90 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 3443.00 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 344.30 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 200.37 [Kbytes/sec] received >Development over NFS Benchmarking dev.clickcomworks.net (be patient).....done Server Software: Apache/1.3.27 Server Hostname: dev.clickcomworks.net Server Port: 8000 Document Length: 68237 bytes Concurrency Level: 100 Time taken for tests: 2.093 seconds Complete requests: 10 Failed requests: 0 Broken pipe errors: 0 Total transferred: 1046656 bytes HTML transferred: 1040240 bytes Requests per second: 4.78 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 20930.00 [ms] (mean) Time per request: 209.30 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate: 500.07 [Kbytes/sec] receive _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"