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Re: benchmarking, sometimes the bottleneck is the machine or server that issues the requests, not the receiver that you are testing. To figure out your actual c
by Rd6n6 5y ago
Re: benchmarking, sometimes the bottleneck is the machine or server that issues the requests, not the receiver that you are testing. To figure out your actual capacity, you sometimes need multiple request servers or a more powerful request server. This was the case for a project I did a few years ago. Not a critique of the blog post, just remembering something out loud
His site, https://peepopoll.com/ https://peepopoll.com/, took about 10s to load for me. It’s also good to chart other metrics like response times while you benchmark. Requests per second isn’t the same as a low response time
- hu3 5y agoIndeed. Recently a client needed to bench raw req/s processing power of their application server and I had to ask for a powerful server running on the same DC in order to discard any potential routing issues.