On Sep 19, 2011, at 9:02 AM, Tito, Joseph wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone here had any tips/documentation/links on how much 
> server power is required to run GeoServer in a production environment with 
> 500+ users. I’m currently close to implementing GeoServer into production, 
> and I want to make sure that I have enough server power to ensure things run 
> smooth for my users.

Joe, this is going to be highly dependent on your data set, layers served and 
usage patterns so I don't think anyone can answer this for you.  We too are 
about to go into production with geoserver and what we did was proxy geoserver 
through apache httpd which amongst other things gave us access logs. We took 
several days of real usage from those logs and fed those to jmeter to load 
test.  You can ramp up the number of concurrent threads and see how geoserver 
performs.  If you are using tomcat as the container you can monitor that from 
within your jmeter script as well as watch it on the server.

The only thing left is to translate what X simultaneous users from jmeter 
really means in real world usage. I have not taken the time to do analysis of 
time between real world queries, to get a better idea of what a "normal" single 
user load produces, but in my case I'm estimating 1 continuous thread is 
equivalent to 5 to 10 active users.  I hope I'm right :)

hth
charles

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