[phpa] Re: Benchmark Results
- From: "Nick Lindridge" <nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: phpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:42:19 -0000 (GMT)
'ab' does download the page content, and personally I think it's fine for
giving an indication of acceleration. Sure it may not easily approximate
real world situations that well, but it's just as unreal in both the
accelerated and unaccelerated case, and the reported speed differences *are*
real enough.
>
> David Campbell wrote:
>> Were starting to go a little offtopic here but you asked
>>
>
> Sure but what the hey... :)
>
>>
>>>>Are you suggesting that ab doesn't download the file?
>>>
>>
>> Yes that is corect AFAIK AB doesn't 'download' anything rather it
>> simulates a request to the server. Nothing is downloaded or written
>> to disk.
>
>
> I see things like
>
> Requests per second: 155.28 Transfer rate: 808.90 kb/s ...
>
> The transfer rate - is that just an approximation then?
>
>
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