On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 07:15 -0600, Dave Smith wrote: > Stuart Jansen wrote: > > They exist. I've run across some pretty sucky sites that max my > > processor whenever I perform certain actions or scroll the window. > > > > I know what you mean. Pretty much any JavaScript intensive site pegs my > iPod Touch CPU (supposedly Apple is addressing this in the 2.0 > software), but I think the OP was talking about server side. Re-reading > the post, I think that's the case: > > > The test is going to be using Siege to throw a whole bunch of web > requests > > at the machine and see how the CPU holds up. > > It'd be easy enough to write a memory/cpu intensive web application > (heck, a bash fork bomb or tight while loop would do the job, if > installed as a CGI).
Yes this would do the job, but my goal is to make it as close as possible to a real website. I want to simulate a business environment to get the data. This would load down the server but not really give me real world conditions. Nathan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
