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specweb 2005 configuration : Introduction

The next few entries here are going to be based around the configuration
of the specweb2005 benchmark and all that is required to set it up.

Having been through this process I have found that there doesn't seem to be a whole
lot of information out there about this, at least google doesnt think so !

The write ups here initiall are going to focus on what is required to configure
the benchmark to get it running and NOT on tuning it to get the maximimum performance
out of your rig - that may come later..

Firslty for anyone who hasnt a clue what im rambling about, Specweb2005 is the latest incarnation of an industry standard webservices benchmark developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation which aims to benchmark the ability of a given machine running kind of load that modern webservers experience. It is used by many hardware manufacturers, ourselves included to show off the latest offerings by submitting benchmark scores from the benchmark running to spec.org .

The benchmark consists of three tiers:

Backend Simulator	<->	Webserver	<->	Load Generating Client 1
				....
				<-> Load Generating Client n

The Webserver in the middle layer being the machine under test.

The topics the next few entries will cover are below. As each entry is written ill update the below and link it, so if the topic below is a link there's an entry, if not check back soon !

Benchmark Setup	Setup of the Backend Simulator (Besim)
Webserver Configuration:	PHP Compilation
	Java jsp setup
	Generating SSL certs
	Sun Java Webserver installation & setup
	Zeus Webserver installation & setup
	Apache2 Webserver installation & setup
Benchmark Configuration:	Specweb2005 Configuration Files & fileset

Posted at 09:30AM Feb 03, 2006 by nmullen in Performance  |