I am thinking of trying to find an old pentium I with PCI and putting a GigE card in it just for benchmarking.
I'd love to find one like this too. I sometimes use a 180 MHz Pentium Pro box. But it only has 160M of EDO memory which is hard to scrounge around here, and probably can't use modern hard drives effectively due to BIOS limitations.
Good luck. I really wouldn't recommending throwing money down this path. I spent $300 I really don't have on a GigE switch and cards in order to get more out of mod_cache to little avail other than more useless benchmark numbers.
Yet, if you send me some flood scripts and httpd patches, I can throw some numbers back at ya though. No sense other httpd'ers wasting their money.
How about modifying ab to add a delay of a second or two between successive read(2) calls on the same connection
an excellent idea. Or maybe add a delay after any read if -k is in effect.
Um, flood already lets you do this and lots more. ab isn't a load simulator and trying to produce benchmarks with it is laughable. -- justin
