On Jun 26, 11:00 pm, "Nimrod A. Abing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/26/07, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't want to sound discouraging, but if the answer is at all critical > > to your operation, you can't trust any numbers you get here. They will > > not have the same usage patterns as yours. Benchmark, benchmark, > > benchmark is the only way. > > FWIW, I use this: > > http://www.joedog.org/JoeDog/Siege > > to do stress and load testing as well as benchmarking. > > In most of my cases, even a modest machine (1GB memory, dual-core > Intel [EMAIL PROTECTED]) can handle up to 1,000 hits per minute. By hits I > mean > hits to the Apache server runningmod_pythonwith the Django app. The > first choking point you're likely to come up with is bandwidth limits. > But as Malcolm said above, your use case may not be the same as > everyone else's and you should benchmark your own app to determine > what your server can handle.
As soon as you add in any degree of database access I would expect that request rate to drop off somewhat. It is usually the database which is the bottleneck, not bandwidth limitations. This is part of the reason for using memcached as that can alleviate database access issues to a degree. One other factor to consider is whether prefork or worker MPM is being used. If you can validate that your application is working okay if run under worker MPM, then the fact that less Apache child processes are used with this MPM means that you can reduce your overall memory consumption. This may be a factor if your application is quite fat and thus your box is becoming memory constrained even with moderate levels of traffic. If prefork is used and a large burst in traffic arrives which causes Apache to start creating additional child processes, in a system which is already memory constrained, it could result in physical memory all being used up with processes then having to be swapped out, thus bogging things down. PS. Yes Malcolm, I know I have not yet created a ticket about the documentation and worker vs prefork. Been so busy of late, have a few dozen things to catch up on my in box. :-) Graham --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
