On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Christopher Schultz
<ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
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> Stephen,
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> On 10/24/13, 11:29 AM, Stephen More wrote:
>> I came across this paper by Peter Lin (
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/articles/performance.pdf ). In a simple
>> xml addressbook war he summarizes how different variables affect
>> the speed of the application. In one test he compares: Sun X1
>> 400mhz Ultra Sparc IIe - 5 requests/sec AMD 2ghz XP - 25
>> request/sec It appears that both used Tomcat 4.1.19 and Sun
>> Jdk1.4.1_01
>>
>> In an attempt to see what todays numbers look like I rebuilt the
>> war ( svn co
>> https://maven-examples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/addrbook ) and
>> deployed in my environment Core i7-3720 QM @ 2.60 GHz SSD disk java
>> version "1.7.0_45" apache-tomcat-7.0.42
>>
>> package the war - mvn package execute jmeter - mvn verify
>>
>> Jmeter shows my Throughput of 2.2 requests/sec ! With all the
>> advances over the years ( or overhead ) are we just slowing down or
>> are one of our results flawed ? ( I am running in VirtualBox - I
>> think this would slow some things down - but not this much. )
>
> VirtualBox is likely making this run terribly, though it can depend a
> lot on the environment, hardware, configuration, etc. Try running
> natively. You got 2.2 req/sec? That sounds ... completely
> unacceptable. Something must be terribly wrong.

Ok, I tried natively.... for 1 thread I got 1.2 req/sec - my task
manager showed some cores doing absolutely nothing so I re-ran it with
8 threads to get 5.0 req/sec. I agree this is unacceptable - something
must be wrong - but what ?

> What is your testing procedure?

I am running apache-tomcat-7.0.42-windows-x64 natively, I execute
jmeter via maven on a separate machine.

>> Are others seeing similar results ?
>
> I don't think anyone has bothered to benchmark that example code in a
> while...

If anyone else could benchmark that code I sure would like to know your results.

> - -chris
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