On Dec 8, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Per Buer wrote: > Rebert Luc wrote: >> Hello, >> >> In our studies we have a project which consists in testing the >> performance of Varnish in order to make a comparative with and >> without >> the proxy cache. >> Does anyone know which utilities to employ ? (knowing that the aim >> is to >> justify our tests) > > You could have a look at varnishreplay to "replay" earlier recorded > varnishlogs. If you also want to synthesize traffic you could also > check > out siege and curl-loader. > > If you have a high hitrate in your cache you'll most likely end up > benchmarking the tools rather then varnish. I think I measured siege > to > be ~3x slower then varnish.
I used httperf with great success. However, it's only single- threaded, so you may want to put a wrapper around it to test request concurrencies > 1. --Michael _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list [email protected] http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
