On 15-Jan-2010, at 10:08, Jarrod Slick wrote: > On Jan 15, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Eric Covener wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Jarrod Slick <jar...@e-sensibility.com> >> wrote: >> >>> What about having a private VLAN between a testing machine and the apache >>> machine. I suppose that would solve the resource separation problem between >>> the benchmarking tool and the web server. Can you think of any problems >>> with this type of setup? >> >> It doesn't model the traffic real clients would generate very well, >> unless you expect them to be on the same vlan too. > > Yes, but the mission is just to see which webserver is "better" in terms of > performance.
"better" in terms of what KIDN of performance? Serving web pages to real users or serving a completely artificial set of non-real world users with a completely artificial set of non-real world pages? If this is simply an epeen contest then it's pretty worthless and no one is lily to be very interested. > So, I should be more specific with my question: to the end of determining > strictly which webserver is more efficient do you see any problems with this > type of setup? More 'efficient' I think you mean. > And another question: how would you do it differently? Sure, in an ideal > world I could assemble my own botnet and then blast my corporate network with > a gigabit of distributed traffic multiple times for each webserver -- but > obviously in the real world that's not going to happen. The question you have to ask yourself is what are you wanting to test? A completely artificial metric with no real-world correlation? If so, then you're on the right track. -- I love as only I can, with all my heart --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
