[thesite] if anyones bored..

Bob Davis bobd at members.evolt.org
Fri Oct 19 09:53:44 CDT 2001


At 11:25 PM -0500 10/18/01, you wrote:


>ran some benchmarks today with ab(posted some of the results on 
>thelist today) to see how we would handle a slashdotting.

Cool. How long has it been? 1.5-2 years? We're due again.


>i was actually pretty impressed with CF handling the load to say the 
>least :) we're running CF5 now on every *.evolt.org site that uses 
>CF thanks to an anonymous donation. heres some sample results of a 
>couple variables i used to simulate a slashdotting:
>

<snip>

>
>i've been tuning it all night to get up to 4 reqs/sec for an article 
>page. i used the latest article for this test, but the frontpage, 
>god forbid if it ever got linked to from /., wouldn't hold up even 
>close to this.. i ran the test from leo.evolt.org so bandwidth 
>wouldn't be a limiting issue, but you can see even with that kind of 
>load we're pushing 2/3'rds of the evolt t-1. coupled with out usual 
>traffic load from thelists, member accounts, and regular websites - 
>we'd max out our t-1 before we ever got to the point of crashing CF, 
>which is a good thing in a way..

:)

Cool! That's awesome, Dan. Thanks to the AD for the upgrade (if 
you're listening...).


>anyways, i'm bored. you all have to deal with it now by listening to 
>my geeky benchmarking happy good times.. :)

;)

Thanks.


>so, we're about as tuned as evolt is gonna get IMO. my job is done 
>here, i'm heading back to mexico or something ;)

Thanks for the tuning! That's awesome.

bob

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