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Re: Mac mini benchmarks (Was: Re: Server Computers)

At 6:58 PM -0500 1/5/06, Dan Shoop wrote:
At 2:56 PM -0800 1/5/06, Anita Holmgren wrote:
Last year we benchmarked a Mac mini running Mac OS X (client) with Apache 2+. The mini was easily able to handle 1000 hits per second (using Apache bench with 32 simultaneous connections requesting a 2K file).

A 2K file is a very small file. Since most web sites use graphics, and even have html pages of much greater length than 2K, the analysis of just 2K file transfers is rather pointless. A good analysis needs to access transfers of various file sizes, and a mix. Most analysts should aware of this. The value of the above study is dubious at best.

Apache bench is a valid cross-platform baseline. The resultant 86 million hits a day can be modulated to whatever extent you wish to reflect a persons real-life complex site. Obviously people don't have static sites either, but measuring dynamic sites across heterogeneous platforms turns out to be difficult. So the Apache bench is just a starting point.

It is simply meant to counterpoint the "if your looking at 10+ connections per second (just pulling numbers out of the air here) a single mini most likely won't be fast enough" and the "10k per day != mini. :)" pronouncements which seem to go unchallenged.

-Anita


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