24 Feb
Since everyone else has said it
Sun’s looking to give away free Niagara servers to bloggers looking to review them.
I put my name in, not that this blog is a huge traffic source, but because I’m doing a series of articles for IBM on Unix performance tuning, and I think it would be sweet to use one of these boxes. I’ve also been doing some tuning and setup for b5media, and I’d love to compare mySQL and/or apache under the same load, assuming I can figure out a way to simulate it. I suppose given a fast connection (cough, like the one at work, cough), I could direct a portion of the requests that way, or just to write some code to replay the day’s transactions at it and compare it to the actual performance.
Hi Sean,
If you are looking to generate load, you might be interested in the siege web benchmarking utility and the MySQL mysqlslap load-testing utility. Both utilities are super useful, and spit out some rather useful reports.
- Ryan
March 12th, 2006 at 7:37 pm