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] >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general > > -- Lien H. Suandy Software Application Development Engineer (520) 955-8698
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