APC benchmark

You might be better off testing a nontrivial case like a framework
based web application's homepage with and without APC turned on for
100 fetches. That's where APC really shines.

All,

I was looking for a standard benchmark script that I could run with and without apc caching to see the general gains.
Is there something that is used by the internals team for such tests?
If not, are there any recommendations?

Thanks,
Mohammad

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I was looking for a standard benchmark script that I could run with
and without apc caching to see the general gains.
Is there something that is used by the internals team for such tests?
If not, are there any recommendations?

What information do you want to gain from that? A general benchmark is
not that useful for you as a user. Results heavily depend on the
application, the hardware and the usage patterns of the application. A
benchmark like "my application runs 3 times faster while serving 5-times
more users in parallel" tells nothing.

If you want to test an APC patch this depends a bit on the patch etc.
est provide the patch.

johannes

Including Wordpress in your test does sound fairly realistic actually,
but it's a good sign that something else becomes the bottleneck with
APC enabled (:

Thank you for the feedback Tom.

I actually created a simulated test with jmeter and wordpress and was
testing that with and without apc (simulation of a set of authors and
readers).
Once I turned on APC, I realized my db server became a bottleneck and I was
not able to test the max throughput.

Your scenario removes the db and focuses strictly on the cached pages, so I
will give that a try.

Thanks and if there are any other suggestions, please do let me know!

• Mohammad

Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 11:38:56 -0400
From: tom@punkave.com
To: internals@lists.php.net
Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] APC benchmark

You might be better off testing a nontrivial case like a framework
based web application's homepage with and without APC turned on for
100 fetches. That's where APC really shines.

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Mohammad Saleh msaleh811@hotmail.com
wrote:

All,

I was looking for a standard benchmark script that I could run with and
without apc caching to see the general gains.
Is there something that is used by the internals team for such tests?
If not, are there any recommendations?

Thanks,
Mohammad

--
Tom Boutell
P'unk Avenue
215 755 1330
punkave.com
window.punkave.com

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