No errors.. but I can see warnings -- [Wed Sep 15 09:55:39 2010] [warn] (103)Software caused connection abort: mod_fcgid: ap_pass_brigade failed in handle_request function -
Thanks Paras. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:54 AM, John List <johnl...@gulfbridge.net> wrote: > If you've already narrowed it down to php, jmeter probably won't help you > further. > > Are you getting any error messages in your apache log? > If not, check the log level in your php.ini file and set it to log > everything. > > Is there not a list or forum for horde? Try posting there. > > John > > > > > On 09/14/2010 06:07 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > > Pablo, > > With .html files, it performs good. with php scripts it doesnot (whether it > is using database or not) > > I will look for jmeter. > > Thanks > Paras. > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Pablo Garcia Melga <mal...@gmail.com> > <mal...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > Sorry Paras, I didn't catch it right , then the behavior is : > > Database based (Performs Wrong) > Non Database based (perform good) > html files (performs good) > is this right ? > > Asuming this is the case, then you should check your database server > to see if you're seeing stress signs on it. > > Also, if you really want to load-test your application, then you > should consider a more complex test, using jmeter or some other > testing tool, where you can create random waits and other test > artifacts. > > Regards, Pablo > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanpa...@gmail.com> > <pradhanpa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Just confirmed that the runtime wait is happening to all the database > > > based > > > and non database based php scripts and with plain html files it is fine. > Ideas? > Paras. > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanpa...@gmail.com> > <pradhanpa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Yes horde is based on PHP and Mysql. But the page I am hitting with ab > > > is > > > just the login page and no database involved. > Paras. > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Pablo Garcia Melga <mal...@gmail.com> > <mal...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I'm not familiar with Horde, does it run against a database server ?, > based on the information you provided, there's seems to be something > else preventing the apache to serve the requests on time. > > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Paras pradhan <pradhanpa...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > Pablo, > Here the o/p: > command: ab -t 60 -c 100 https://domain/h/imp/login.php > > vmstat: > [r...@wmail /]# vmstat -S M 2 20 > procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- --system-- > -----cpu------ > r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us > > > sy > > > id > wa st > 40 0 0 7305 288 2259 0 0 0 3 14 11 2 > > > 1 > > > 97 > 0 0 > 7 0 0 7301 288 2259 0 0 0 0 1785 15462 39 > 15 46 > 0 0 > 47 0 0 7296 288 2259 0 0 0 0 1720 15032 40 > 17 43 > 0 0 > 25 0 0 7297 288 2260 0 0 0 62 1656 15157 40 > 15 45 > 0 0 > 7 0 0 7296 288 2260 0 0 0 0 1866 15701 40 > 17 44 > 0 0 > 51 1 0 7293 288 2260 0 0 0 42 1862 16083 37 > 14 44 > 4 0 > 1 0 0 7295 288 2260 0 0 0 12 1807 15293 42 > 15 42 > 0 0 > 51 0 0 7298 288 2260 0 0 0 0 1797 16015 36 > 14 50 > 0 0 > 14 1 0 7296 288 2260 0 0 0 54 1782 15001 42 > 15 41 > 2 0 > 36 0 0 7293 288 2260 0 0 0 220 1728 14567 43 > 16 37 > 3 0 > 17 0 0 7292 288 2260 0 0 0 42 1726 15443 40 > 16 44 > 0 0 > 11 0 0 7296 288 2260 0 0 0 10 1844 15618 39 > 14 46 > 0 0 > 9 0 0 7290 288 2260 0 0 0 0 1617 14694 41 > 15 44 > 0 0 > 4 0 0 7291 288 2260 0 0 0 44 1632 14668 42 > 15 43 > 0 0 > 7 0 0 7287 288 2260 0 0 0 16 1657 14941 38 > 17 45 > 0 0 > 14 1 0 7287 288 2260 0 0 0 40 1751 15042 39 > 17 41 > 3 0 > 43 0 0 7290 288 2260 0 0 0 12 1787 15635 38 > 18 44 > 0 0 > 1 0 0 7288 288 2260 0 0 0 0 1675 14830 41 > 17 42 > 0 0 > 44 0 0 7290 288 2260 0 0 0 44 1762 15691 33 > 16 51 > 0 0 > 39 0 0 7288 288 2260 0 0 0 10 1666 14491 41 > 18 40 > 1 0 > > Process waiting for run time (r) seems to be high. But don't know if > > > it > > > is > normal with 100 concurrent users. > Thanks > Paras. > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Pablo Garcia Melga < > > > mal...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > Paras, have you checked the OS counters ?, is this completely CPU > bound ? > would you post a "vmstat 2" run during the ab testing ? > > Regards, Pablo > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Paras pradhan<pradhanpa...@gmail.com> > <pradhanpa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > I got almost the same result as yours with a small test php > > > script. > > > But > with > the login page of horde, I am getting a small number of requests > processed. > I am assuming my tuned apache is fine and its the bulky horde php > scripts > that are hitting me. But still looking around the solution.. I > > > have > > > memcached and eaccelerator in place but not seeing improvements. > > With small php script: > nagarkot:~ ppradhan$ ab -t 10 -c 30 https://domain/test.php > This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $> > Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd,http://www.zeustech.net/ > Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, > > > http://www.apache.org/ > > Benchmarking hostname (be patient) > Finished 4608 requests > > Server Software: Apache/2.2.3 > Server Hostname: hostname > Server Port: 443 > SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1/SSLv3,AES256-SHA,1024,256 > Document Path: /test.php > Document Length: 68 bytes > Concurrency Level: 30 > Time taken for tests: 10.003 seconds > Complete requests: 4608 > Failed requests: 0 > Write errors: 0 > Total transferred: 1107432 bytes > HTML transferred: 313480 bytes > Requests per second: 460.65 [#/sec] (mean) > Time per request: 65.125 [ms] (mean) > Time per request: 2.171 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent > requests) > Transfer rate: 108.11 [Kbytes/sec] received > Connection Times (ms) > min mean[+/-sd] median max > Connect: 8 30 33.3 26 406 > Processing: 5 35 21.4 32 386 > Waiting: 5 30 20.4 27 383 > Total: 20 65 40.3 59 462 > Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) > 50% 59 > 66% 64 > 75% 69 > 80% 72 > 90% 81 > 95% 91 > 98% 154 > 99% 269 > 100% 462 (longest request) > > > With horde: > > -- > nagarkot:~ ppradhan$ ab -t 10 -c 30 > > > https://domain/h/imp/login.php > > This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $> > Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd,http://www.zeustech.net/ > Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, > > > http://www.apache.org/ > > Benchmarking hostname (be patient) > Finished 28 requests > > Server Software: Apache/2.2.3 > Server Hostname: hostname > Server Port: 443 > SSL/TLS Protocol: TLSv1/SSLv3,AES256-SHA,1024,256 > Document Path: /h/imp/login.php > Document Length: 16808 bytes > Concurrency Level: 30 > Time taken for tests: 10.057 seconds > Complete requests: 28 > Failed requests: 0 > Write errors: 0 > Total transferred: 490644 bytes > HTML transferred: 470624 bytes > Requests per second: 2.78 [#/sec] (mean) > Time per request: 10775.575 [ms] (mean) > Time per request: 359.186 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent > requests) > Transfer rate: 47.64 [Kbytes/sec] received > Connection Times (ms) > min mean[+/-sd] median max > Connect: 9 213 220.9 269 867 > Processing: 660 3935 2707.5 3242 9787 > Waiting: 659 3934 2707.5 3241 9785 > Total: 926 4148 2762.9 3314 10056 > Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) > 50% 3314 > 66% 4803 > 75% 6077 > 80% 6369 > 90% 8963 > 95% 9699 > 98% 10056 > 99% 10056 > 100% 10056 (longest request) > > > Thanks! > Paras. > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:33 PM, John List < > > > johnl...@gulfbridge.net> > > > wrote: > > > On 09/13/2010 12:41 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > > John, > I am testing to support 300 requests / second. concurrent > > > parameter > > > in > ab > does test number of Established tcp session per second if I am > > > not > > > mistaken. > Thanks > Paras. > > Sorry again, Paras. This time I erred in two ways: I said you > > > were > > > testing > at 300 connections per second. Actually, your -c parameter is 100 > so > you are > testing at 100 concurrent requests (not requests per second; the > actual > number of requests per second is probably far higher). > > Suggestions: > > Post your complete ab results back here > You might want to run your test against a (non-encrypted) http > > > url > > > (as > well as the encrypted https url you are using) to see to see if > the > encryption process is a significant part of the processing time. > (I'm > guessing it will be.) > > FWIW, I'm posting my own ab results below. I ran ab from my > > > desktop > > > against a simple login screen on a webserver running on a > > > dual-core > > > laptop > on the same local network using a command of "ab -t 10 -c > 30http://192.168.1.3/Login.html". As you can see, I was actually > completing > 573 requests per second!: > > # ab -t 10 -c 30 http://192.168.1.3/Login.html > This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $> > Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd,http://www.zeustech.net/ > Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, > > > http://www.apache.org/ > > Benchmarking 192.168.1.3 (be patient) > Completed 5000 requests > Finished 5734 requests > > > Server Software: Apache/2.2.12 > Server Hostname: 192.168.1.3 > Server Port: 80 > > Document Path: /Login.html > Document Length: 2409 bytes > > Concurrency Level: 30 > Time taken for tests: 10.002 seconds > Complete requests: 5734 > Failed requests: 0 > Write errors: 0 > Total transferred: 16439378 bytes > HTML transferred: 13813206 bytes > Requests per second: 573.30 [#/sec] (mean) > Time per request: 52.328 [ms] (mean) > Time per request: 1.744 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent > requests) > Transfer rate: 1605.14 [Kbytes/sec] received > > Connection Times (ms) > min mean[+/-sd] median max > Connect: 0 0 0.4 0 7 > Processing: 4 50 68.6 41 1918 > Waiting: 3 49 68.4 41 1918 > Total: 4 50 68.6 42 1919 > > Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms) > 50% 42 > 66% 46 > 75% 50 > 80% 53 > 90% 81 > 95% 120 > 98% 180 > 99% 282 > 100% 1919 (longest request) > # > > I hope this helps. (And thanks for introducing me to ab!) > > John > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:34 PM, John List<johnl...@gulfbridge.net> > <johnl...@gulfbridge.net> > wrote: > > > On 09/10/2010 06:09 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 4:58 PM, John List<johnl...@gulfbridge.net> > <johnl...@gulfbridge.net> > wrote: > > > Which processes are using the processors the most? (I suspect > your > imap > server might be more responsible than apache.) > > John Hicks > > > True . But I am only hitting the login.php page from ab to > benchmark. > Thanks > Paras. > > (Pardon me for not reading your op more carefully.) > > I am not familiar with ab, but after a quick read, I have one > observation: > > You say you are building a system to support 200+ concurrent > > > users > > > on > horde. I assume that means 200 users concurrently running horde > and > therefore checking their inbox every minute or so. That would be > about > 3.3 > requests per second. > > It looks to me like your ab test is testing at 300.0 connections > per > second. > > In other words, perhaps you needn't be too concerned about > sluggish > performance from the ab test. > > John Hicks > > > > > On 09/08/2010 03:42 PM, Paras pradhan wrote: > > > Hi, > > Looking for recommendations. > I need to serve 100-200+ concurrent users to provide php based > webmail > client (horde). I have setup memcached and php-fastcgid for > > > this > > > purpose. > The server has four 2.2G AMD optereon cores with 8GB of > > > memory. > > > I am > doing > stress test using ab as: ab -t 36000 -c 100https://url/h/imp/login.php. > What I have noticed if the number of concurrent users are more > than > around > 25, I get the sluggish performance and I can see linux load > rising > high to > 25 to 30 and all the cpu cores are approximately 75% used. > > This is what I have in config files: > > mpm worker: > -- > <IfModule worker.c> > StartServers 15 > MaxClients 960 > MinSpareThreads 75 > MaxSpareThreads 150 > ThreadsPerChild 64 > MaxRequestsPerChild 5000 > -- > > memcached: 4GB > > --- > > fcgid: > > <IfModule !mod_fastcgi.c> > AddHandler fcgid-script .fcgi > MaxRequestsPerProcess 10000 > MaxProcessCount 100 > IPCCommTimeout 240 > IdleTimeout 240 > ProcessLifeTime 300 > BusyTimeout 300 > DefaultMaxClassProcessCount 100 > DefaultMinClassProcessCount 50 > > </IfModule> > --- > > php-fcgid: > > # Number of PHP childs that will be launched. Leave undefined > > > to > > > let > PHP decide. > # DefaultInitEnv PHP_FCGI_CHILDREN 4 > # Maximum requests before a process is stopped and a new > > > one > > > is > launched > DefaultInitEnv PHP_FCGI_MAX_REQUESTS 10000 > ---- > OS: RHEL 5.5 > Apache: 2.2.3 > PHP: 5.1 > Mysql: 5.0 > > > Will appreciate for any inputs. > > Thanks! > Paras. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP > > > Server > > > Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> > <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more > > > info. > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: > > > users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> > <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server > Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> > <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> > <http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > > >