Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Jun 1999 21:31:52 -0400 (EDT) | From | Chuck Lever <> | Subject | Re: Preparations for ZD's upcoming Apache/Linux benchmark |
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On 8 Jun 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > However, the things is that web performance obviously _is_ important to > a lot of people, and it's really hard to benchmark slow connections and > lossy networks etc which is what most real-life uses are. So webbench > is kind of a "default choice" - it's a bad benchmark of real-life > behaviour, but there isn't anything else out there.
i know i sound like a broken record sometimes, but i've read a good paper that describes a benchmark that might do the right thing in terms of mimicing high-latency low-bandwidth networks:
http://www.cs.rice.edu/CS/Systems/Web-measurement/paper/paper.html
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