On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 14:01, Oğuzhan TOPGÜL <oguzhantop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I have developed an apache module and i want to evaluate the performance of > my module. > I want to see how my module increases the load. I want to measure the > effect of my module on processor and memory. > I decided to set an evaluation environment using snmp and cacti. > I'm sending thousands of request from a laptop to the server which my > module is installed by using apache benchmark (ab). And i'm measuring load > average, memory usage data from cacti in two different cases (my module is > active and passive) > > Do you think this is a good evaluation environment or do you have any > ideas, suggestions??? > > sincerely > > Oguzhan
That's a pretty sensible approach. Measuring CPU usage is usually better done with a profiler unless a coarse-grained indicator like the load average is good enough.