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Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 21:17:19 +0100
From: Maurice Wahl <m-wahl@gmx.de>
Reply-To: Maurice <m-wahl@gmx.de>
Message-ID: <341289047.20020204211719@gmx.de>
To: sk <users@httpd.apache.org>
Subject: Re: performance calculation with ab tool
In-Reply-To: <03fa01c1ad59$5f896920$3b0110ac@kovaiteam>
References: <03fa01c1ad59$5f896920$3b0110ac@kovaiteam>
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Hi,

your calculation is correct, but your testbed isn�t. ;-)

ab request a single file a certain number of times with a certain
concurrency. As long as your file is smaller than the main memory of your
server box, your OS will keep the file in DRAM just like squid does, hence
the marginal difference between your measurements.

My approach - yet unfinished - is to start multiple ab instances on several
machines and request different files from the server (concurrency=0). All
files together shall be much bigger than the main memory of the server, in
order to avoid OS internal caching. The problem is always to generate
�correct� stimuli for the server, but this setup should generate useful
numbers for the performance. Adoptions may be required for measuring squid
performance.

Regards,
Maurice

PS: Are there any suggestions for cheap performance measuring of Apache? I
found webbench from Ziff-Davis and the above mentioned ab. Anything else?


> Hello all,
> 
> I want to calculate how much performance of  Server(apache) has been
> increased .So i did as follows.
> 
> Using Request per second ,(actually which parameter should i use)
> 126.53(with squid)- 121.92(without squid)
> -------------------------------------------- = 3.7 %
>        121.92(without squid)
> 
> 
> My Q is , am I correct over here(calculating server performance)  ?
> 
> I've attached "ab testresult " below for reference .plz reply asap .I'm
> awaiting with more anticipation .
> 
> ab testresult:
> -------------
> 
> WITH Squid :
> 
> Server Software:        Apache/1.3.19
> Server Hostname:      sample.kovaiteam.com
> Server Port:               80
> 
> Document Path:          /
> Document Length:     1310 bytes
> 
> Concurrency Level:      100
> Time taken for tests:     7.903 seconds
> Complete requests:      1000
> Failed requests:            0
> Total transferred:         1754000 bytes
> HTML transferred:      1310000 bytes
> Requests per second:  126.53
>  Transfer rate:              221.94 kb/s received
> 
> Connnection Times (ms)
>                  min       avg   max
> Connect:        0     1    21
> Processing:    14   548  6410
> Total:            14     549  6431
> 
> 
> ====================================================================
> 
> WITHOUT Squid:
> 
> Copyright (c) 1998-2000 The Apache Group, http://www.apache.org/
> 
> Server Software:        Apache/1.3.19
> Server Hostname:        sample.kovaiteam.com
> Server Port:            80
> 
> Document Path:          /
> Document Length:        1310 bytes
> 
> Concurrency Level:      100
> Time taken for tests:   8.202 seconds
> Complete requests:      1000
> Failed requests:        0
> Total transferred:      1723000 bytes
> HTML transferred:       1310000 bytes
> Requests per second:    121.92
> Transfer rate:          210.07 kb/s received
> 
> Connnection Times (ms)
>                    min   avg   max
> Connect:        0    14  3000
> Processing:    41   766   836
> Total:            41   780  3836
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> -shanker


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