Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 12:23:03 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Preparations for ZD's upcoming Apache/Linux benchmark |
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On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 03:55:53PM -0400, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> > Of course nobody has addressed the problem that Apache is optimised for > > the real world not benchmarks and that its not the right server to use > > for a benching exercise with the rather poor benchmark tools used today. > > Someone needs to write a new benchmark. It's not exactly trivial to > rig up a load of many more slow connections, but that's a lot more > realistic to today's Internet than the mythical "one server with 400 > megabits of connection to the Internet serving fast clients". > > Have you ever priced 400 megabits of connection to the Internet? It > costs a lot more than that hardware.
Has anybody ever considered using NIST's network simulation stuff for benchmarking purposes? The home page is http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/. It basically can produce an artificial packet loss and latency, thereby providing a much more realistic network environment for benchmarks than common benchmarks currently do.
Ralf
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