[WEB4LIB] RE: Benchmarking system performance

[Jerry Kuntz]

Make that "relevant." Revel-ant more closely describes my attitude at the
start of a long holiday weekend.
-JK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Kuntz" <jkuntz at rcls.org>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 4:37 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Benchmarking system performance


> This site was advertised on the radio during my commute home today. May
not
> be especially revelant to library web services, but it might hint at
> methodologies:
> http://www-heva.mercuryinteractive.com/
> Jerry Kuntz
> Ramapo Catskill Library System
> jkuntz at rcls.org
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "GRAY, PAUL" <PAUL.GRAY at TCCD.NET>
> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib at webjunction.org>
> Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 3:35 PM
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Benchmarking system performance
>
>
> > I would be VERY interested in that as well -
> > More the methodology than the actual results.
> >
> > It has been my experience that a site which might reply in 2 seconds on
> one
> > hit --
> > may take 10 or 20 seconds on another try from the same machine only a
> short
> > time later and maybe 5 seconds on another try.
> > I have also observed and been advised by much wiser techs than myself
that
> > these differences have nothing to do with the local workstation.  And
> while
> > they MAY have something to do with traffic at the site you are trying to
> > reach - they could just as easily be a function of bottlenecks any place
> > BETWEEN your site and theirs.
> >
> > Given all of that - my (admittedly limited) mind has to wonder - how are
> you
> > going to provide any kind of trustworthy figures?
> >
> >
> > Paul H. Gray,Manager - Library LAN & CLC
> > TCC Northeast Campus Library
> > Ext 6623
> > "Those Williams boys they still mean a lot to me - - - Hank and
Tennessee"
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Alan Gale [mailto:agale at uoguelph.ca]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 06, 2000 2:10 PM
> > > To: Multiple recipients of list
> > > Subject: [WEB4LIB] Benchmarking system performance
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >         Hello:
> > >
> > >       I am gathering information on guidelines or standards
> > >       to follow in establishing performance benchmarks for
> > >       networked resources such as web-based library catalogues
> > >       or bibliographic databases.
> > >
> > >       I'd like to be able to come up with a series of searches
> > >       to run, on an ongoing basis, and some standard to compare
> > >       the response times to.
> > >
> > >       If anyone has any reports or other publications they could
> > >       refer me to or experience to relate, I'd be pleased to hear
> > >       from you.
> > >
> > >       Thanks for your assistance.
> > >
> > >
> > >       ..... Alan Gale
> > >             University of Guelph
> > >
>