Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 15:24:19 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: piero@strider.ibenet.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Anyone else think it's about time to beat a WEB server to death? Message-ID: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.951110152320.16765W-100000@schizo.cdsnet.net> In-Reply-To: <6196.816030897@time.cdrom.com>
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Just to clarify, I have them all. Netscape commerce, communication, Apache and NCSA. We currently use Netscape. I'm having a separate box built for this test, so as far as I'm concerned, we can use anything we want, as it's a no-brainer to stop/start 'em. On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > YES. Around November the 20th we at IBE.NET can put up not one > > but two servers running FreeBSD for this purpose. > > We can put one in Europe and one in the USA, both connected by a T1. > > OK. Well, Jaye has already volunteered one of his own machines, also > on a T1. However, he's running the netscape commerce server on his so > it strikes me that we could do this as a larger test, sort of like a > chili contest.. :-) > > We have `n' machines, each chosen to represent some demographic > in the W3 world. Right now I see this as: > > o #1 - Jaye: Represents what you can do with a real commercial > transaction server (netscape). Maybe even put up some > secure pages to give it a good test. This will make the > commercial folks feel good since they're seeing the actual > software under test that they themselves would be using and > won't be quick to dismiss the Apache test results as inapplicable > to them. > > o #2 - Piero-US: Represent what you can put together with entirely > free components (Apache?). > > o #3 - Piero-EU: Same as #2 but so the Europeans can participate > in the test too. > > We run the test for a 24/48/72 hour period, whichever you folks think > is best or can stand, after which each machine's stats are collated > and put together into a large report which is distributed widely. > > This could really be an event, if we handle it right. > > Jordan >
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