Axel Boldt wrote:
>Neil,
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>maybe you could pepper your stress testing with some calls to special
>functions; I would imagine that searching and RecentChanges are the
>most important ones, but the more the better.
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Recent changes and all the special pages are already being loaded,
including the big queries: the spider also completely ignores any robots
metadata (but won't walk out of the site).
I'm not doing any searches, though, or hitting any other forms. I'm
probably not going to be able to do so for a couple of days -- I have
other commitments for the next day or two.
I'm concentrating at the moment on filling up the database with
interlinked dummy articles in a Zipf distribution, to make stress
testing more representative of the situation as if in a year or so's
time. Otherwise we risk saying that performance is fine with the current
database, and then everything falling down later when the system fails
to scale.
I'm only stress testing in bursts, as I think an hour's testing every so
often is fine as a representative probe.
I've also sent the scripts to Jimbo, and I think he's going to do
LAN-local stress testing with essentially unlimited bandwidth.
Can someone please let me have access to the logs?
Neil