On Tue, 18 Apr 2000, Adi wrote: > Cool, thanks for the quick response, Stas. > > I don't seem to have LWP::Parallel. Looks like I need to upgrade to the > newest version of LWP. But yes, I did notice that ab gives much more > accurate results. I was using Time::HiRes to simply measure the time it > takes from request to response, and it gave widely varying results. Which > was why I wanted to do a loop so I could divide the total time taken by the > number of iterations. Well, it's almost useless to benchmark by running a single query. I don't know how did you want to do that without LWP::Parallel. > I'm glad to hear you're already working on it. I'll definitely help out > with your regression suite, because I haven't gotten too far on mine (I > just started working on it today). I've started 2 days ago when I've got tired from running the benchmarks for the Guide manually and parse the results... Hold on and you might get my version very soon now :) > > Thanks for the LWP list ref.. I'll post the question there. > > -Adi > > Stas Bekman wrote: > > > > First I work on a similar suite as well. I didn't want to announce it yet, > > before I get some things working. But since you've mentioned it here, here > > we go... Hope to get the first version out of the door in a few days. > > > > Regarding LWP, I've used a similar to ab script as described at > > http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html and I've found the results > > are very different if you the same test with ab and LWP::Parallel, so I'd > > not recommend using it if you want to figure out the *real* numbers. Do > > you see a different behavior with your tests? > > > > So based on these findings I use ab and parse the output to make a > > different report than ab does. > > > > I didn't find the answer for your original answer in the LWP::UserAgent > > manpage, but probably the right address is the libwww list: > > > > The latest version of this library is likely to be > > available from CPAN as well as: > > > > http://www.linpro.no/lwp/ > > > > The best place to discuss this code is on the > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mailing list. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Stas Bekman | JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker > > http://stason.org/ | mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://perl.org http://stason.org/TULARC/ > > http://singlesheaven.com| http://perlmonth.com http://sourcegarden.org > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ______________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman | JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ | mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://perl.org http://stason.org/TULARC/ http://singlesheaven.com| http://perlmonth.com http://sourcegarden.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------
