Posted by Michael Vilain on 09/28/05 10:34

In article <433a3ca2$1_2@news.tm.net.my>, Jorn Tk <jorntk@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I need some advice on how measure a php application performance in order
> to determine the spec of the servers that will be use run the application.
>
> what are the tools and method that can be use to measure the computing
> resources needed to support a number of users?

Same as any web-based application. And it all depends on your
application, web server configuration, and hardware.

Bottom line: there's no automated tool to tell you to "buy this type of
machine" or "buy this much memory", although if you have a sense of the
data flow you probably could figure out disk requirements.

In order to measure performance, you first have to have a workload to
test. Do you have the working application already written? What
resources does it utilize (I/O, CPU, and disk)?

You'll have to be more specific in order to get more than the standard
response:

That depends(tm).

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