Posted by Rik Wasmus on 11/09/07 18:27

On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 19:12:54 +0100, FFMG <FFMG.2zsmen@no-mx.httppoint.com>
wrote:
> I want to stress test my dev box to see where the bottle necks in my
> script might be.

Profile generated with the xdebug extention?

> I don't really need to test MySQL or Apache, (I have no doubt they are
> working fine), but rather want to test what scripts might be slow under
> stress.
>
> I am developing on a windows machine but will be running the site on a
> *nix machine.
>
> Can you suggest any tool(s) that would have a few hundred anonymous
> users clicking various links and give me a valuable report.

With a reasonable profile in xdebug you don't need 'hundreds of users'.
However, apply a standard apache stresstest to (some of you) PHP pages,
and profile them using xdebug might yield a more realistic result _for
that server_. Running something like this on your windows development
server might tell you which portions of the code take longest, that's
about it. For a reliable report on how your live server will actually
handle it you should run it on a comparable server with identical settings
and builds.
--
Rik Wasmus

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