I am graduating myself from smaller sites to something larger (in terms of # of simul. users, connections, etc) and wanted to know how others go about benchmarking their systems. I am completely self-taught and funded, so I advance my skills as my time and $$ permits. I do not want to hire others to do what I believe I can do myself. Maybe not as extensively or exhaustively as another firm, but I want to be able get ballpark figures that I can place some confidence in. I am aware that the LWP module allows one to create connections to a site via the internet with Perl, so I presume I could use this as the backbone. But how do you mimick user traffic, connections, db queries, et cetera?
I would appreciate and all comments, directions, suggestions that you might all have. Thanks, Ward
