Chris,

I'm curious about your test results, does it make much difference
having two forests vs. just one?

Thanks,

Lien S.


On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:46 AM, Christine Schwartz <
[email protected]> wrote:

> 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]
>> >
>>
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