Re: Benchmarking

On 08/07/2003 09:14 mixo wrote:
> How can I benchmark the perfomance of Pg with the following setup:
>  Perl 5.8.0 (perl-DBI, perl-DBI-Pg)
>  postgresql-7.3.2-3
>  apache-2.0.40-21
>  mod_perl-1.99_07-5
>
> I want to compare the perfomance of Pg against that of Mysql using my
> own data.

IMHO, the first thing you should do is configure each database to provide
its optimum performance with your hardware and data. Anything less would
not be a fair comparison.

There are a number of open source web testing tools around. Apache JMeter
is a good one.

HTH

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