Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...
apache benchmark, aka ab comes with apache and lets you hit your server as many times as you want. Also see wget and valgrind/callgrind For Windows users, there's something called SuperSmack or some equally silly name... :-) On Mon, January 21, 2008 3:50 am, Jochem Maas wrote: hi guys, I need to do some performance testing for a site of mine. I want to compare performance of various combinations of using APC, Squid, Apache/LightHTTPD mod_php/fastcgi. all very well I can build the various setups but I'm stuck as to how to go about recreating realistic load on the machine in question. I don't want to have to go out and buy some commercial software. STFW is making my head spin. Does anyone have any tips, urls, advice as to how to start going about creating something like a 'test suite' for testing high load performance of a website? TIA -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- Some people have a gift link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some indie artist. http://cdbaby.com/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
[PHP] performance/load testing ...
hi guys, I need to do some performance testing for a site of mine. I want to compare performance of various combinations of using APC, Squid, Apache/LightHTTPD mod_php/fastcgi. all very well I can build the various setups but I'm stuck as to how to go about recreating realistic load on the machine in question. I don't want to have to go out and buy some commercial software. STFW is making my head spin. Does anyone have any tips, urls, advice as to how to start going about creating something like a 'test suite' for testing high load performance of a website? TIA -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...
Ron Rademaker schreef: Hi Jochem, Apache comes with an nice ab tool which stands for apache benchmarking. You can use this to benchmark stuff like concurrent requests. indeed, I know ab, but it doesn't allow for a very realistic request 'spread' - at least as far as I know. I was hoping for a bit more detailed info on mimicking real-world site usage, e.g. maybe using access logs as a source of url data? Ron Jochem Maas wrote: hi guys, I need to do some performance testing for a site of mine. I want to compare performance of various combinations of using APC, Squid, Apache/LightHTTPD mod_php/fastcgi. all very well I can build the various setups but I'm stuck as to how to go about recreating realistic load on the machine in question. I don't want to have to go out and buy some commercial software. STFW is making my head spin. Does anyone have any tips, urls, advice as to how to start going about creating something like a 'test suite' for testing high load performance of a website? TIA -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:50 +0100, Jochem Maas wrote: Does anyone have any tips, urls, advice as to how to start going about creating something like a 'test suite' for testing high load performance of a website? I went through a similar headache recently, and looked at a whole whack of testing suites that are available. You can take a look at http://www.opensourcetesting.org/performance.php first, but I ended up using Apache JMeter most. It really is quite configurable and usable and gives you a lot of information. --Paul -- . | Chisimba PHP5 Framework - http://avoir.uwc.ac.za | :: All Email originating from UWC is covered by disclaimer http://www.uwc.ac.za/portal/public/portal_services/disclaimer.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...
Jochem Maas wrote: Ron Rademaker schreef: Hi Jochem, Apache comes with an nice ab tool which stands for apache benchmarking. You can use this to benchmark stuff like concurrent requests. indeed, I know ab, but it doesn't allow for a very realistic request 'spread' - at least as far as I know. Indeed it doesn't, but you appear to want to figure out what optimization works best. You don't need realistic spread for that, even more I think you shouldn't want realistic spread for that but something comparable instead. If anything, the result of ab are very useful for comparing results. I was hoping for a bit more detailed info on mimicking real-world site usage, e.g. maybe using access logs as a source of url data? Ron Jochem Maas wrote: hi guys, I need to do some performance testing for a site of mine. I want to compare performance of various combinations of using APC, Squid, Apache/LightHTTPD mod_php/fastcgi. all very well I can build the various setups but I'm stuck as to how to go about recreating realistic load on the machine in question. I don't want to have to go out and buy some commercial software. STFW is making my head spin. Does anyone have any tips, urls, advice as to how to start going about creating something like a 'test suite' for testing high load performance of a website? TIA -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...
Ron Rademaker schreef: Jochem Maas wrote: Ron Rademaker schreef: Hi Jochem, Apache comes with an nice ab tool which stands for apache benchmarking. You can use this to benchmark stuff like concurrent requests. indeed, I know ab, but it doesn't allow for a very realistic request 'spread' - at least as far as I know. Indeed it doesn't, but you appear to want to figure out what optimization works best. You don't need realistic spread for that, even more I think you shouldn't want realistic spread for that but something comparable instead. If anything, the result of ab are very useful for comparing results. hmm, you have a point - I guess I'll get stuck in. I was hoping for a bit more detailed info on mimicking real-world site usage, e.g. maybe using access logs as a source of url data? Ron Jochem Maas wrote: hi guys, I need to do some performance testing for a site of mine. I want to compare performance of various combinations of using APC, Squid, Apache/LightHTTPD mod_php/fastcgi. all very well I can build the various setups but I'm stuck as to how to go about recreating realistic load on the machine in question. I don't want to have to go out and buy some commercial software. STFW is making my head spin. Does anyone have any tips, urls, advice as to how to start going about creating something like a 'test suite' for testing high load performance of a website? TIA -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] performance/load testing ...
On Jan 21, 2008 5:50 AM, Jochem Maas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ron Rademaker schreef: Jochem Maas wrote: Ron Rademaker schreef: Hi Jochem, Apache comes with an nice ab tool which stands for apache benchmarking. You can use this to benchmark stuff like concurrent requests. indeed, I know ab, but it doesn't allow for a very realistic request 'spread' - at least as far as I know. Indeed it doesn't, but you appear to want to figure out what optimization works best. You don't need realistic spread for that, even more I think you shouldn't want realistic spread for that but something comparable instead. If anything, the result of ab are very useful for comparing results. hmm, you have a point - I guess I'll get stuck in. I was hoping for a bit more detailed info on mimicking real-world site usage, e.g. maybe using access logs as a source of url data? Ron Jochem Maas wrote: hi guys, I need to do some performance testing for a site of mine. I want to compare performance of various combinations of using APC, Squid, Apache/LightHTTPD mod_php/fastcgi. all very well I can build the various setups but I'm stuck as to how to go about recreating realistic load on the machine in question. I don't want to have to go out and buy some commercial software. STFW is making my head spin. Does anyone have any tips, urls, advice as to how to start going about creating something like a 'test suite' for testing high load performance of a website? TIA -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php Maybe look at http://www.acme.com/software/http_load/ You can configure a big text file of urls for it to hit randomly and such. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
