Dadaimc on edna is really sluggish under heavy load, compared to plain html. the Dada portion of the following test pushed the load up from 1.5 to about 10.

karl:~# ab -n 100 -c 20 http://newswire.indymedia.org/en/
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.1 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking newswire.indymedia.org (be patient).....done
Server Software:        Apache/1.3.26
Server Hostname:        newswire.indymedia.org
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /en/
Document Length:        21617 bytes

Concurrency Level:      20
Time taken for tests:   3.594 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Broken pipe errors:     0
Total transferred:      2348624 bytes
HTML transferred:       2322528 bytes
Requests per second:    27.82 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       718.80 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       35.94 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          653.48 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       55    61    9.5     57    98
Processing:   282   574  217.8    521  1142
Waiting:      219   574  217.9    520  1141
Total:        282   635  214.2    601  1199

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%    601
  66%    760
  75%    799
  80%    812
  90%    915
  95%   1022
  98%   1089
  99%   1110
 100%   1199 (last request)

DADA TEST HERE

karl:~# ab -n 100 -c 20 http://nyc.indymedia.org/
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.3d <$Revision: 1.1 $> apache-1.3
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998-2002 The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking nyc.indymedia.org (be patient).....done
Server Software:        Apache/1.3.26
Server Hostname:        nyc.indymedia.org
Server Port:            80

Document Path:          /
Document Length:        57120 bytes

Concurrency Level:      20
Time taken for tests:   92.115 seconds
Complete requests:      100
Failed requests:        0
Broken pipe errors:     0
Total transferred:      5757900 bytes
HTML transferred:       5712000 bytes
Requests per second:    1.09 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request:       18423.00 [ms] (mean)
Time per request:       921.15 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate:          62.51 [Kbytes/sec] received

Connnection Times (ms)
              min  mean[+/-sd] median   max
Connect:       55    56    1.4     56    63
Processing: 12344 16843 2347.9  16770 22092
Waiting:    12287 16843 2347.9  16769 22091
Total:      12344 16900 2347.8  16826 22148

Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)
  50%  16826
  66%  18033
  75%  18554
  80%  18967
  90%  20382
  95%  21215
  98%  21345
  99%  21365
 100%  22148 (last request)

-- JohnDudaAccount - 15 Aug 2004