mercury

Hey guys,

First I have to say that this project looks pretty awesome for minimizing setup time on new drupal hosts. I can't wait to give it a go. Question though, is there somewhere I can download the server images? I'm particularly interested in giving them a spin on both vmware and xen. I saw the roll-your-own guide for project mercury which will allow me to get started without a server image, is there something similar for Vulcan?

Thanks.

My name is Greg Coit, sysadmin for Chapter 3 and I've been helping with Mercury development and testing.

We wanted a get a quick idea of how hard we could push mercury under more "real world" circumstances, so I combined siege and ab to generate a broad spectrum of hits. ab (short for apache benchmark and part of the apache2-utils package) allows you to generate a very large number of hits on one url, while siege (a perl script which comes in a self-titled debian/ubuntu package) lets you spread the hits across many urls, most of which won't be cached. This mixed-load is a much more nuanced and accurate way of looking at performance than peak throughput on a single url.

Hi,

I was wondering if there is one consolidated set of instructions anywhere that deals with how to set your own drupal based site over the base pressflow site launched over your EC2 mercury instance?

Basically I would like to know more about the following steps.These seem to be covered in the www.getpantheon.com intro video but the section is sped up and very difficult to try and dissect to understand what is going on.

I have successfully launched a small instance running the Mercury AMI. I am able to login to pressflow and have root access via SSH to the EC2 box.