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Benchmarking is the process of gathering data about the performance of a system in different scenarios to measure the impact of changes to the system, to compare the system with other options, or to determine maximum capacity.

Benchmarking is the process of gathering data about the performance of a system in different scenarios to measure the impact of changes to the system, to compare the system with other options, or to determine maximum capacity.

Benchmarking is a multidisciplinary process and can require management, engineering, operations, data science. and user experience expertise.

A key concern when benchmarking is making sure the tests performed are analogous to how to system is actually used. When benchmarking a server, the following metrics may be considered (in addition to countless others):

  • Ping response time
  • Average Load
  • Number of Dropped Requests
  • Number of Concurrent Connections Possible
  • Power Consumption
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Does Apache Benchmark allow intervals between each request?

I have a server which blocks burst request (if the same IP address accesses the server more than 3 times a second, it will serve 500 error). So when I use Apache benchmark, I see a lot of failed requests, even when I set concurrency to 1. Is there…
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How to use the SPEC benchmark (for dummies)

I just had a quick look so far at the documentation of the SPEC2006 benchmark. However, until now I was not able to find some information how I can nicely present the performance measurements I got from the benchmark. So I am wondering if some of…
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What is the real-world speed (stream, latency) of USB3 and USB2 over SATA?

What is the real-world speed (stream, latency) of USB3 and USB2 over SATA? It is easy to find streaming speed comparisons, but more difficult to find latency comparisons in the same setup. Answer to follow in a momemt.
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How benchmark server with load balancer

Hey I have four computers(with linux): two with mediawiki(mirror, both connected to one db) one with mysql one server(DHCP,DNS etc) I configured on my server load balancer and now hen I type in browser name.local for example I get one of my…
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Test load on Web Server

I want to benchmark my server to the best configuration for Apache and MySql. I want you to ask if do you know any script that simulates various users browsing on the website? PD: I'm using DebianThanks
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What is the easiest way to benchmark a webserver?

I want to compare my home server (Debian 6) and Amazon EC2 (Ubuntu 10.04) Is there a program that I can simply and download and run to get the comparison values? I want to compare harddrive I/O, CPU, memory and etc.
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