Hi,

I would urgently advise you to stress-test the whole machine before going into production. All environmental factors should be similar to the live situation (esp. network connectivity).

The next problem is imposing some "real world load", which can be simulated using a couple of desktop PC's.

I found Microsoft's Webtool excellent for its configurability and real-world experiment design. You must have a couple of Windows PC's though, and have Administrator rights on at least one of them.

A thorough HOWTO can be found here: Load Testing Web Applications using Microsoft’s Web Application Stress Tool.

HTH!

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Cheers, Joe

In reply to Re: how to benchmark a script called by apache by joe++
in thread how to benchmark a script called by apache by Sihal

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