Re: [PHP] Load testing an app

2013-04-24 Thread tamouse mailing lists
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Adam Richardson simples...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote: The other developer in our office spent some time profiling the site

Re: [PHP] Load testing an app

2013-04-24 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Apr 24, 2013 9:46 PM, tamouse mailing lists tamouse.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Adam Richardson simples...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Andrew Ballard

Re: [PHP] Load testing an app

2013-04-23 Thread Adam Richardson
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote: The other developer in our office spent some time profiling the site with xdebug and found that an exec() call to netsh used on a couple pages seems to take 2-4 seconds to complete. Unfortunately, those exec() calls are

Re: [PHP] Load testing an app

2013-04-23 Thread Andrew Ballard
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Adam Richardson simples...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Andrew Ballard aball...@gmail.com wrote: The other developer in our office spent some time profiling the site with xdebug and found that an exec() call to netsh used on a couple

[PHP] Load testing an app

2013-04-22 Thread Andrew Ballard
I'm looking for ideas to help load test a PHP site my office wrote and maintains. Peak usage for this site is during the fall when new students arrive, and for the first time this past fall the traffic rendered the web server completely unresponsive, almost as quickly as we could restart it. The