I used the nice hammerhead tool (http://hammerhead.sourceforge.net) to
stress test the beta.wikipedia.com server. The tool lets you simulate
several simultaneous users repeatedly requesting pages from (or
posting to) the server.
I have my users request RecentChanges (33% of the time) and issue
searches (66% of the time). Here's the average response time of the
server:
1 user: 2 sec
5 users: 4 sec
10 users: 8 sec
20 users: 11 sec
100 users: 42 sec
These are only the times it took the server to respond; the actual
total time to complete a request is not as useful in my case because
of my limited bandwidth.
Axel
stress test the beta.wikipedia.com server. The tool lets you simulate
several simultaneous users repeatedly requesting pages from (or
posting to) the server.
I have my users request RecentChanges (33% of the time) and issue
searches (66% of the time). Here's the average response time of the
server:
1 user: 2 sec
5 users: 4 sec
10 users: 8 sec
20 users: 11 sec
100 users: 42 sec
These are only the times it took the server to respond; the actual
total time to complete a request is not as useful in my case because
of my limited bandwidth.
Axel