Hi,

I'm looking for numbers or experience on WPE limitations. I have a small, 4K script that does a find of a POST variable, and then writes a string into a field before invoking a javascript redirect. Upon loadtesting the script, I can only get up to about 200 simultaneous users before WPE founders, throwing 417 errors, and sometimes simply crashing.

I'm running a two machine setup. WPE is a Dual Quad Core 2.26 Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM. The DB is a Dual 1.8 G5 MP with 2GB of RAM.

Neither machine peaks out the network or CPU. WPE does end up taking up "131%" in Activity Monitor, however between all the cores, none of them show much strain.

Is 200, or even 500, simultaneous connections (users) too much to expect, or are there a few things that can be tweaked to help WPE out?

Thanks in advance.

Yes, that's too much. The bottleneck is the AJP connector between Apache 1.3 and the Tomcat component of the WPE.

Maybe with Apache 2 it is better.

Thanks for the info. I'm running Apache 2.2, so it must be just as bad. I take it this is something you can't just throw more resources at?

Out of curiosity, is IIS any better?

In the meantime, duplicating the data I need in a MySql table and loading it into FM through ESS is working out well so far too - and much, much quicker.