Posted by daemon on July 9, 2009 at 4:03pm
I would like to test some caching configuration for my site. Could someone recommend me some tools to test the effectiveness of the site?
Also, if there are known configurations that work for a site with only anonymous users, please let me know! (currently using eAccelerator and Boost).
Thanks!
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ApacheBench should be the
ApacheBench should be the best solution.
"ab -n 1000 -c 10 URL" produces Ten thousend request with 10 concurrent User. Apachebench provides good statistics.
You can also use Apachebench with drupal http://drupal.org/project/apachebench.
Remember to run it from a
Remember to run it from a separate server so as to not skew the results.
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Siege
Siege is similar to apachebench, but has some better options (IMHO). It's harder to set up though (if you're not on Linux)
I also find it useful to simulate a Page Cache miss by appending a timestamp to the end of the url so it looks like a new page to the cache module. E.g. http://example.com/about_us?117848302
jmeter
jMeter is the best benchmarking tool for me. AB is great for a quick/easy test, so I still use that for profiling purposes, but when you want to set up some kind of actual predictive testing, jMeter offers a lot. You can set it up in reverse-proxy mode with a cookie handler and "record" a set of clicks and form-submits. You can create multiple groups of threads to run serveral "types" of traffic at once. Best of all, you can do this in the GUI, and then export the test plan to run server-to-server later.
http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/
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