No entity beans..not even using EJB on this particular test. It will be a
few weeks before I get the clustered test posted. Business needs are
consistently coming in and we don't have time to do much else. But as soon
as I can I will post those results.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2000 5:21 PM
> To: Orion-Interest
> Subject: re Performance test...
>
>
> Kevin, quick question on your login test. Does your application use
> EntityBeans to represent your users (and therefore are you calling
> EntityBean.ejbFind() to load from Oracle?). Or are you using another
> mechanism to represent users within your application?
>
> Many thanks for posting this info, it's extremely helpful!
>
> --Mark
>
> ============
>
> 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.
>
>
>
>
>
