Re: science fair project

[Mark Neidorff <mark neidorff com>]

Well, then you are testing the system in, essentially what is a single
user mode. That is not a good model for testing server applications whose
spped and efficiency varies in the real world of multi-tasking and
multi-user access.  (Don't forget to turn off EVERYTHING run by cron
and at)

Mark


On 1 Jan 2002, Brandon Hale wrote:

> I plan to turn off all non-essential daemons during testing, so that
> only the processes I am using run... is this still a problem? I was
> aware processes would need to be held constant.
> 
> On Tue, 2002-01-01 at 13:51, Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > Problem is under linux you don't know what other processes might be
> > running at any given time.  These will affect the timing that you are
> > trying to measure.  Unfortunately, there is no easy and accurate answer.
> > 
> > Mark
> > 
> > On 1 Jan 2002, Brandon Hale wrote:
> > 
> > > Hey all.
> > > 
> > > Im currently working on my high school science project and am hoping
> > > someone can help me out. Here's the project overview:
> > > 
> > > I am building a simple web application in several languages (PHP, JSP,
> > > Perl and ColdFusion).  It takes data from MySQL, builds an HTML doument
> > > from it, and sends it off to Apache.  The idea is to see which language
> > > is fastest.
> > > 
> > > The problem I have is the timing.  I need to get an accurate time
> > > between the HTTP request is sent, and the time the first HTTP response
> > > headers start coming back.  This way I can compare the times to see
> > > which language adds the most execution time.
> > > 
> > > Anyone have an idea how to implement this? I'm thinking a simple Perl
> > > script will do it, but I don't know how to go about it.  Or maybe
> > > someone knows of another program that will do this.
> > > 
> > > TIA,
> > > Brandon Hale
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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