On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Domas Mituzas <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello! > > > apachebench does help with efficiency. It is inefficient (not to > > mention > > irresponsible) to wait to benchmark your code until you have a > > throng of > > users actually relying on it. > > It isn't matter of benchmarking, it is matter of relative resource > costs, compared with other projects, and no way you'd get the answer > with benchmarking tool. > Do note, we have a cluster which serves thousands of other requests, > so we may have capacity to serve various exceptions, but we may as > well want to spend that capacity on more efficient things, like, um, > wikis without eyecandies (interface language changes for english > language wikis? way to go!) > > > Apachebench will allow you to set the header > > needed to trigger the language content shift in mediawiki while > > simultaneously hammering the server with such requests. > > We already know the costs, we do profile. We have way more detailed > costs than anything 'ab' can provide. > We have way more capacity in our cluster than a single-threaded > benchmark tool can load properly. > > Domas > > If you know the costs so well, why is there a need to see if the foundation wiki buckles under the load during fundraiser time? I believe you have grossly misrepresented the capabilities of apachebench, and per your message it appears that you've never used it. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
