Jason E. Sibre wrote:
[snip]
> To time them accurately, I have to use Microsoft's ACT, which is the only
> testing program I've come across so far that will corroborate my
> seat-of-the-pants feeling. I get the following results:
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> I doubt many people on this list will have access to that program, which is
> why I put together that test package.

Hello,

You might try Httperf.
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html

I found it when ab2 on my machine didn't work.

It seems to push machines a little differently than ab so it might give
you different results.

On my dual Opteron server running Gentoo Linux AMD64 if I remember
correctly after installing Twisted and benchmarking its main page
http://localhost/
and only getting around 25rps with Apache2.x getting 4-5,000 I didn't
explore any further with Twisted.

Twisted may perform better than that, I don't know. Httperf may have
been stressing or finding problems with Twisted. Nevertheless, I didn't
explore.

Anyway. Try Httperf. It may prove interesting.

Jimmie Houchin