[PHP] how many requests can php serve?

2002-07-17 Thread Andy
Hi there, I am wondering how many requests at one time php can serve before the site brakes down. Someone told me that my site has been down yesterday for a while after I did anounce it through a university email list going to 2500 users. Maybe there is a smart artikle on that. Thanx for any

Re: [PHP] how many requests can php serve?

2002-07-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Andy wrote: I am wondering how many requests at one time php can serve before the site brakes down. Someone told me that my site has been down yesterday for a while after I did anounce it through a university email list going to 2500 users. It depends on: - Your network

Re: [PHP] how many requests can php serve?

2002-07-17 Thread Andy
ok .. you are right. But how about an average.. between 20 users per minute or similar is this a common rate on this data? : - Your network connection 100 MBit - Your hard drive pretty fast - Your RAM 256MB - Your CPU Celleron 900 - Your database mysql - The design of your site as

Re: [PHP] how many requests can php serve?

2002-07-17 Thread Blair Colbey
Ever tried the basic ab (apache benchmark)?? It comes with the unix distro of it.. not sure about windows..YOu can test say 1000 requests with as many as you want at the same time.. Works good for load testing a group of servers behind a load balancer.. On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Andy

Re: [PHP] how many requests can php serve?

2002-07-17 Thread Chris Hewitt
Andy wrote: ok .. you are right. But how about an average.. between 20 users per minute or similar is this a common rate on this data? : Is there something like a benchmark available on such thing? Apache comes with ab for load testing. Maybe that will provide you with a means of making

Re: [PHP] how many requests can php serve?

2002-07-17 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Chris Hewitt wrote: Apache comes with ab for load testing. Maybe that will provide you with a means of making meaningful comparisons. There will be a php aspect to it, php opposed to say 3-tier java, but also things like is php a cgi, apache module or actually compiled