Thanks, Mike. I'm going to give PerformanceMeters a try. I forgot to mention that the new database is on an external drive provided by our IT department. So, that's my other reason for testing.
Thanks again for your help. Chris Christine Schwartz XML Database Administrator Princeton Theological Seminary Library [email protected] On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Michael Blakeley <[email protected]>wrote: > If searches normally arrive via http, you could use any HTTP test client: > http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/httperf/ for example. If you > normally send queries via XCC, you might look at > https://github.com/marklogic/performance-meters > > Think about factors that might influence performance. For example what > queries to test, and how many clients to use. Or caching: when all data is > in cache, there shouldn't be any difference between the two configurations. > > What are you expecting to see? My general experience is that multiple > forests have more impact on ingestion speed than query speed. > > -- Mike > > On 21 Aug 2013, at 08:37 , Christine Schwartz < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I recently created a new version for the database of our largest digital > library collection with two forests, rather than one. > > > > Now, I'd like to compare the speed of these two databases--the old one > with one forest and the new one with two. I want to test search query speed. > > > > What's the best approach to this kind of testing? Is it possible to do > this without bothering our developer to amend his code with query trace, > etc.? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Chris > > > > Christine Schwartz > > XML Database Administrator > > Princeton Theological Seminary Library > > [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > >
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