Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Use config file or file for repository owner's name.

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:04:51 -0800 (PST)

Bruno Cesar Ribas <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 07:06:44PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > If the config reading interface is too slow (somebody has to
> > bench it on a large set of repositories), maybe we would need to
> 
> I made a simple bench as follows.
> 
> dd= 'dd if=/dev/zero of=/home/bruno/dds/$i bs=1M count=400000'

This was to provide load, and check how it works under load, isn't it?

> Machine: 4*opteron 2.8GHz
>      32GB ram
>      14*750GB RAID0 sata2 /home
>      
> Generated a 1000 projects [ too much?! git.debian.org has 668]
> For each test a 'echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches' was done before running
> it.
> 
> command: time gitweb.cgi > /dev/null

Didn't you mean

  time GATEWAY_INTERFACE="CGI/1.1" HTTP_ACCEPT="*/*" \
       REQUEST_METHOD="GET" QUERY_STRING="" gitweb.cgi

here (or some wrapper thereof)?

I wonder what would ApacheBench show... 

Note also that there are operating systems (MS Windows, MacOS X) where
fork is much slower than on Linux.

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland
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