SMF UNoptimisation

Started by aishaweb, March 31, 2009, 06:50:52 PM

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aishaweb

Is it possible to load SMF up to simulate a heavy load somehow so we can see how our hosting will cope if the forum grows big?

Vekseid

I use siege. Installing Neonneo's shoutbox also works as a DDOS simulation >_>
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aishaweb

Quote from: Vekseid on March 31, 2009, 07:00:37 PM
I use siege. Installing Neonneo's shoutbox also works as a DDOS simulation >_>

Thanks:
http://www.joedog.org/index/siege-home

Vekseid

I probably should specify in more detail >_>

By default, SMF's board view is the slowest of any publicly visible page, so that is the best thing to siege - it makes a good worst case performance checker, especially as you can let SMF scale very nicely through optimizations.

So if this is your forum, hit:
http://otfordinteriors.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=1.0

That. >_>
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Spaceman-Spiff

You can also use the Apache AB. Just make sure your host won't ban you for DDOSing the server :P.

Something like that

Quote from: Vekseid on March 31, 2009, 07:35:25 PM
I probably should specify in more detail >_>

By default, SMF's board view is the slowest of any publicly visible page, so that is the best thing to siege - it makes a good worst case performance checker, especially as you can let SMF scale very nicely through optimizations.

So if this is your forum, hit:
http://otfordinteriors.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=1.0

That. >_>

The Stats page can be far more intensive. Of course, I tweaked mine to load in less than 0.1 seconds on refresh ;)

Here's a quick rule of thumb for hosting requirements, going by users online in 15 minutes:
20 -- terrible shared hosting
50 -- okay shared hosting
100 -- fantastic shared hosting/low-end vps
200 -- dedicated low-end server/high-end vps

Rumbaar

There was a script around that populated a SMF forum with thousands of members, threads and posts to test load.  Not sure if it was ever made public though, you can try a search.
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