Hi,
Any idea how to test a couch serve without a farm of clients?
I'd say testing it as "just another HTTP service" with Apache Ab [1] or HTTPerf [2] would give quite reasonable results.
1. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/programs/ab.html 2. http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/, Peepcode screencast: http://peepcode.com/products/benchmarking-with-httperf K.
