One thing I've done in the past is to grab the various URL paths that are getting hit by my webserver, and dump those to a text file.
Next step is to load up siege and have it replay those against the target webserver. On Oct 9, 2007, at 1:48 PM, Jason Hiller wrote: > One way to approach this is to baseline your application on > hardware that you already have. You can use a load generating > program like Jmeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/) to create > load that would be similar to what you experience during your peak > times. It is pretty easy to record a transaction while navigating > the application in different ways, and then replay those > transactions to create load. You can tweak the number of simulated > issues, frequency of hits, wait time, etc...while running the > transactions. > > This method can take some of the guess work out of it and can help > to guarantee that the platform will scale. It is also a great way > to identify any bottlenecks (memory, io, etc). > > Just be careful to ramp the load up to realistic levels...it can be > easy to misinterpret the settings for Jmeter and create ridiculous > levels of load, leading you to think that the system is under > performing. > > Jason Hiller > Oracle Corporation > > > > On 2007-10-05 23:56, Bryan O'Neal wrote: >> Ok, so I am thinking about moving some stuff in house. In >> particular a >> mostly dynamic website that users some backend java and a mail >> server. >> The mail server is pretty low key, handling maybe 30K messages a day. >> The web server is expected to get about 300K hits a day. How big >> of a >> server do I really need? >> I was thinking Cent OS5 running Apache/TomCat/MySQL with >> procmail. And >> I was thinking I could easily getaway with something like a dual core >> 3GHz(x1333FBS) with 4GB Ram and a 4 SAS/SATA disks in a RAID5 area. >> Suggestions? Is this going to be big enough or am I low balling it? >> >> >> >> Bryan O'Neal >> Cornerstone Homes > > !DSPAM:14,470bfd8338421677269807!<Hiller > Jason.vcf>--------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > !DSPAM:14,470bfd8338421677269807! --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
