Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 21:24:38 +0000 () From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: announce@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone else think it's about time to beat a WEB server to death? Message-ID: <199511102124.VAA13009@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <5587.816024955@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 10, 95 09:35:55 am
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > However, I check myself with the knowledge that it's not an entirely > unreasonable thing to want to know, and I merely wish that I had more > data on this subject to provide in response. It's obviously > impossible to come up with one number that fits all situations, but > various guesstimates can be derived from existing data so that given a > link speed of x, a PC of macho-factor y and the "average" user doing > z, you can come up with a performance projection of n users. > > The only problem is that I don't *have* any existing data worth > mentioning. Brian Tao's benchmarks (700K+ hits per day) are a good opener when talking to commercial vendors that think that 10K/hour is "heavy". A little while ago we had someone here with a problem where they were peaking at 100/sec but falling off to 70/sec until update ran. I haven't heard any more since then on that one. I realise that neither of these are 'real-world' cases. > If we can't get any actual data from existing WEB service providers, > or even if we can, might I prevail on someone out there with a > well-connected box to possibly declare a "flag day", during which as > many people on this list as possible (and anyone else they can find) > aggressively attempts to beat the server to its knees while the server > maintainers busily collect stats on the event? Do a 'dry run' first 8) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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