[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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