Benchmarking mapserver by simulating visitors

[Sean Gillies]

On Aug 24, 2005, at 4:26 AM, Gambin Dejan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am preparing to move my mapserver web site to faster Internet link. I
> would like to do some benchmarking that would simulate a number of
> simultaneous visitors doing the map actions (zooming, panning,
> activating/deactivating layers, querying, etc.) and save the results (I
> suppose some bandwidth and time consuming values) somewhere. The thing
> is, I would like to analyse the results that would help me decide on
> what hardware to buy and especially how much Internet bandwidth to 
> lease
> from my ISP.
>
> Is it possible? Any suggestions on how to do it? Do you consider it
> valuable?
>
> thanks very much
>
> regards
>
> dejan
>
>

Dejan,

See Apache JMeter

cheers,
Sean

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