Re: [techtalk] Benchmarking, Bandwidth, server speed

2001-05-15 Thread David Merrill
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 07:11:18PM -0700, Raven, corporate courtesan wrote: > There are a few different ways to test your throughput. Many ISPs > will have test files that you can FTP to and from them to use up all > the available bandwidth. Or, you can try to pingflood your line Try runn

Re: [techtalk] Benchmarking, Bandwidth, server speed

2001-05-15 Thread Raven, corporate courtesan
Heya -- Quoth Michelle: > I'm trying to solve a mystery, and at the same time, figure out good > metrics to determine our server speed, network speed, capacity, etc. Hoo boy. Good idea, but these are three separate issues, so you're going to have to troubleshoot and benchmark each one sepa

Re: [techtalk] Benchmarking, Bandwidth, server speed

2001-05-15 Thread coldfire
> On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:13:41PM -0500, Daniel Manrique wrote: > > Do you know for sure that the page itself isn't the problem? if you need > > data from a complex query to build the page, it might be that the database > > is suffering. In this case maybe checking what the heck the database is

Re: [techtalk] Benchmarking, Bandwidth, server speed

2001-05-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 04:13:41PM -0500, Daniel Manrique wrote: > Do you know for sure that the page itself isn't the problem? if you need > data from a complex query to build the page, it might be that the database > is suffering. In this case maybe checking what the heck the database is > doing

Re: [techtalk] Benchmarking, Bandwidth, server speed

2001-05-15 Thread Daniel Manrique
> I'm trying to solve a mystery, and at the same time, figure out good metrics > to determine our server speed, network speed, capacity, etc. tough order :) > One database-driven page in particular loads *extremely* slowly (like, > minutes), from several computers in the client's office. I've

[techtalk] Benchmarking, Bandwidth, server speed

2001-05-15 Thread Michelle Murrain
Hi folks, I'm trying to solve a mystery, and at the same time, figure out good metrics to determine our server speed, network speed, capacity, etc. One database-driven page in particular loads *extremely* slowly (like, minutes), from several computers in the client's office. I've NEVER had the