Explanation of site performance increase using the throttle module
Posted by Swampcritter on November 25, 2008 at 8:26pm
I support a D5 site that has been averaging around 18 secs load time for the front page (it has lots of external httpd calls, javascript, css files, etc). The architecture consists of a redundant front-end load balancer along with a pair of Squid caching servers, a RHEL5 GFS 4-node cluster, Memcached cluster (1GB per server, 4 servers total). D5 site is running the Memcache API as well.
LoadRunner Setup: 20 Minute Run-Time, 100 Virtual Users (Starts at 2, increases by 2 each 10 seconds)
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