.On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 2:52 PM, David Favor <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A quick test of how fast a single file will serve is to do this. > > 1) ssh into your machine (you must ssh in for this test for it to be > accurate) > > 2) create a 150K file > net1# dd if=/dev/zero of=output.dat bs=150K count=1 > > 3) run ab against said file > net1# ab -k -t 10 -n 10000000 -c 5 http://davidfavor.com/output.dat | > grep Requests > Finished 200265 requests > Requests per second: 20026.41 [#/sec] (mean) > > So on this particular server, 20,000+ people can download this file every 1 > second... No, that test says that 10 people can download that file 2000 times each in one second. Cheers Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx