That was a simply great thing to do. Where could i get hold of this tool.
Santosh
----- Original Message -----
From: Duffey, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Orion-Interest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:11 AM
Subject: Performance test...
> Hi all,
>
> Well, using a pretty nifty (and very expensive) testing tool, I was able
to
> do some "minor" testing on a login process of our site. Using Orion,
Oracle
> 8i database, and e-load test suite, here are some numbers that I got:
>
> 25 users - 15 connections in the pool
>
> pages per second - 43
> pages per day - 3.75 million
> transactions per second - 14.5
> transactions per day - 1.26 million
>
> 25 users - 30 connections in the pool
>
> pages per second - 26.4
> pages per day - 2.28 million
> transactions per second - 8.81
> transactions per day - 761333
>
> 25 users - 5 connections in the pool
>
> pages per second - 51.95
> pages per day - 4.48 million
> transactions per second - 17.32
> transactions per day - 1.49 million
>
> The test is simple. It uses the browser built into the e-test suite
software
> and "automates" the login process of our site. I ran the test on a
PIII650,
> with 512MB RAM. The database is running on a SUN E450 serve with 512MB
RAM.
> The test simply sends a post submitted form with the login name and
password
> to a controller servlet that then hits the database using a connection via
> the pool, and logs in the user. All logins were valid, I did not test
> invalid login names/passwords.
>
> Just thought I would share these numbers. Next week I will be setting up a
> two-server farm, using the load-balancer software that Orion includes in
> their download. Each server will be dual PIII550 with 512MB RAM and SCSI
III
> RAID hd setup (Actually, they are IBM NetFinitiy 4000R units). The load
> balancer will run on a slow PII300 workstation with 128MB RAM (I hope this
> is good enough). They will be failed over and load-balanced, and I will
test
> the performance on those and post the results here.
>
> The only thing I am not sure of is if different testing software performs
> about the same..or are there dramatically different results.
>
> If anyone wants me to attempt to test their site, I'll give it a go from
> here..but its over a T1 connection, where as my test is done locally on a
> LAN, so I am sure the results are more skewed.
>
>
>
