[ic] Testing maximal connects

[Joachim Leidinger]

Dan Browning wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Thomas Dan Otto wrote:
> >
> > TDO>>I want to know, how much people can use the shop in the
> > same time
> > TDO>>and then how the performance is.
> >
> > An unlimited number of people (almost) can use the store at
> > the same time.
> >
> > Performance is dependent on the speed of the computer(s) you
> > are using and the bandwidth of your connection.
> >
> > TDO>>But I got a problem:
> > TDO>>When i.e. 15 people work on the shop, the basket is
> > empty, when I
> > TDO>>want to pay - why?
> >
> > I don't see what this has to do with performance, but
> > possibly you don't have cookies enabled.
> >
> > TDO>>(To simulate the test, I write a perl script, that reads out the
> > TDO>>first page, sleep two seconds, and then reread the first
> > page and
> > TDO>>that 15 scripts parallel)
> >
> > That's not a fair test!
> >
> > The users are going to download a page. Sometimes they click
> > on to the next page, but many times they are going to pause
> > to read the page that they are on. And sometimes that page
> > sits there while they go to get a beer, or get rid of a beer.
> >
> > It's also going to depend on the speed of their connection to
> > your store. A dozen people connected via 56k modems will get
> > served in a shared mode. Feed a little to user A until his
> > stream is full, feed to user B until his stream is full, user
> > C, user D, etc, and then go back to see who is ready for some
> > more. This is also going to depend on the lag time across the
> > internet between each user and your store.
> >
> > I monitor such things with MRTG to keep track of loading.
> >
> > -= Jim =-
> 
> Webalizer and Ntop are also good for network monitoring.  OpenNMS is
> also quite wonderful I've heard as well.

Don't forget to increase "RobotLimit  100", if you access more than 100
pages without 30 seconds pause. :-)

Joachim

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