Re: Load testing, benchmarking, and tuning

2007-08-07 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rhull, rhull wrote: >> Also, are you using apr? IF you are serving static content, apr should >> help a lot (but maybe not if you're planning on caching them in memory). >> Not sure if a memory cache is going to buy you that much. > > Sorry, I'm not

Re: Load testing, benchmarking, and tuning

2007-08-07 Thread rhull
>>I'm running on a 1.5mb download/256kb upload cable connection. > >Is that the advertised rate, or the measured rate? Yes. :-) It's how it's advertised, and I ran a couple online bandwidth tests to check it. >Are you just serving static content? What about the POSTs? The content will be up

Re: Load testing, benchmarking, and tuning

2007-08-07 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rhull, rhull wrote: >> Are you bottlenecked on your internet bandwidth? Are you bottlenecked >> on latency, if you're not re-using HTTP connections? > > I can't find any reason to believe I am. I'm running on a 1.5mb > download/256mb upload cable c

Re: Load testing, benchmarking, and tuning

2007-08-07 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 rhull, rhull wrote: > I've got Tomcat (5.0) running on Linux with JVM 1.5.0_12, with a pretty thin > servlet. I'm fairly new to benchmarking/load testing with Tomcat, and some > of my numbers seem odd. They always do when you get started ;) > Load

RE: Load testing, benchmarking, and tuning

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: rhull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I can't find any reason to believe I am. I'm running on a 1.5mb > download/256mb upload cable connection. The Linux box is on > similar. The > requests are fairly short HTTP POST request (couple hundred > bytes), and the > responses from the servlet a

RE: Load testing, benchmarking, and tuning

2007-08-07 Thread rhull
>Are you bottlenecked on your internet bandwidth? Are you bottlenecked >on latency, if you're not re-using HTTP connections? I can't find any reason to believe I am. I'm running on a 1.5mb download/256mb upload cable connection. The Linux box is on similar. The requests are fairly short HTTP

RE: Load testing, benchmarking, and tuning

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Crowther
> From: rhull [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Load testing with WAPT from a Windows box across the internet > to Tomcat > running on the Linux machine, I'm only seeing something around 15 > transactions per second. This seems like an unlikely low > number to me. Are you bottlenecked on your intern

Load testing, benchmarking, and tuning

2007-08-07 Thread rhull
Hi, I'm new to the forum, and I'm a little new to Tomcat load testing/benchmarking. I've done some searching on the 'net, but I haven't been able to turn up anything useful that addresses my issues. I'm hoping somebody could provide some helpful thoughts. I've got Tomcat (5.0) running on Linu