Nathan Blackham wrote:
I am doing my thesis on power comparison in CPU's and I am looking for a web application that does a lot of CPU usage. The key is that is has to be a standard app that a business might use. I have thought about a possible CMS package, but I am not sure what to use so I am soliciting advice.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. Nathan
Most apps that uses php will pound your CPU. :)Honestly though, anything that isn't written properly will cause you issues, no matter the language. I just tend to see a lot more written in PHP.
As for specific ideas:I know that PHPbb does a weird thing with indexing every word in any new post to it's search table, probably to try and take the hit on post creation rather than search, but if it gets any decent amount of posts, it churns mysql pretty hard trying to update it's search table.
Of course, that's mysql churning, which is fairly normal in web apps. Doing a bunch of mysql lookups on un-indexed columns will pound your CPU.
You could also try gallery with a bunch of photos (a couple thousand) and then go into the admin area and have it recreate all it's thumbnails. (or even have it create them on the fly while uploading them).
Or get a relatively large web log file, and run a stat package against it. (webalizer and awstats pound pretty hard).
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