[07-JUN-2013] Please testdrive BLF on a different server

I tried the link but, it doesn’t know me when I try to login.
Everthing else I tried was blazing fast. Pic heavy threads loaded so much faster.

ive got pretty slow internet connection, so i think im just slowing down myself by all these pages open lol

i have about 80 tabs of my subscriptions open in another browser for about 4 mins, about 40 have loaded

Pic heavy threads don't really have anything to do with BLF. The images are stored on other servers...

PPtk

how did you manage that?

right now this host started going fast again

Cool. Thanks! I have about 1/100th of your connection, so I can’t do a lot of testing. :slight_smile: So are you seeing any timeouts? Or is it just queuing you?

I imagine a lot of tweaking could still be done to Apache. I adjusted down the number of waiting threads and worker threads, and I reduce the number of max concurrent users. Seems to be saving the system. I’m surprised that it’s still keeping more than 100MB of free RAM despite all this.

Ok, I have to ask, how did you do that? :P I still have mine refreshing 100+ pages, but not quite as successful as you are...

Same here. For us the bottleneck is our own connection.

So far, only a very small fraction of the requested pages have actually timed out - the vast majority (99.2% at this moment) have been queued, but processed eventually. Looks really good, to be honest.

500 concurrent threads of wget

But they are linked from the server correct. They seem to load twice as fast as any other time I have looked. It’s like I just received a free ISP speed upgrade.

The test site is much much slower for me than the current site.

I just tossed another 200 threads at it, and now I'm getting timeouts.

Basically, the HTML file contains the link to the image, hosted elsewhere on the internet. You download that small HTML page from BLF, and then your browser obeys the link and initiates a connection with the remove server and downloads the image. What you probably perceive as a speed increase is the reduction in the amount of time that it is taking for the new BLF test server to respond to your request. This production site is taking forever to respond to requests.

Slowing down for me too. I believe a few people here are putting it through a torture test.

Yep, it’s starting to hurt now. Only about 30MB of free RAM and no swap. So it should crash pretty soon. Let’s wait and find out.

What's that you say? You want another 200 threads? No problem :)

Threads: 10 Questions: 1234713 Slow queries: 27 Opens: 414 Flush tables: 2 Open tables: 400 Queries per second avg: 283.842

Yeah, it is hurting now. Timeouts are approaching 30%

Normally we have more anonymous users than logged-in users, and anonymous users usually get a cached version of the page that takes very little resources to serve up. So this is pretty impressive considering that the static HTML cache is disabled.