It depends on what your load test is attempting to prove. Are you attempting to prove you can handle a /.,digg,fark,reddit, etc without a single 500 error in a

It depends on what your load test is attempting to prove. Are you attempting to prove you can handle a /.,digg,fark,reddit, etc without a single 500 error in a 10min window? Or are you attempting to prove that you can handle 2million "transactions" an hour, but have the luxury to ramp up in the real world slowly? (Twitter didn't go from nothing to everything in a day) I'd say the second case is more likely to be the case 90% of sites would care about.