Subj : *BSD
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Pierre Staag
Date : Thu Jun 28 2001 02:17 pm

 JB> 180 load, doing what? a highly parallel compile?

Nope.
 I worked with a hosting-service before, and when we (that means me and one of 
my friends who I shared the responsibility with) wanted to see how Apache 
performed under high load.
 After intentionally making it as bad as possible (a PHP-script fetching 
information from the local postgresql-daemon on /every http-request/) we simply 
used a perl-script to request the document 200 times. We had approx. 80 
instants of the script running simultaneously.

 There was no timeout-values for the "client", so all the requests were 
answered, but the server was unusable for more almost 45 minutes.

 Working in a terminal on a modemline is bad, waiting more than a minute for 
each keystroke at the console is not very good either...

// Pierre

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