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From: "Robert P. J. Day" on 5 May 2010 07:10 Quoting Jochen Schultz <jschultz(a)sportimport.de>: > OS? > > Robert P. J. Day schrieb: >> probably not really a PHP question but i'll take a chance, anyway. >> i want to examine the network throughput i can get when >> continually uploading files from a PHP script via a POST request >> using the HTTP_Request2 class. >> >> i have a client-side script that simply takes files, creates a >> short POST request, and submits it to a server-side PHP script that >> takes the uploaded file and saves it. no big deal. >> >> as a test, i created a random 5M file, then looped 100 times >> submitting the same file, and timed it. while the system and user >> time was only a few seconds total, real (clock on the wall) time >> was 2.5 minutes. this suggests that the bottleneck is simply >> network transfer speed. >> >> while i'm doing these uploads, is there a way to monitor network >> throughput? if this is truly the bottleneck, the only real >> solution will be to pay a premium for faster network access, i >> suppose. but i'd just like to be able to produce some numbers or >> evidence that that's the actual problem. thoughts? whoops, sorry, CentOS 5.4. rday
From: tedd on 5 May 2010 11:28 At 6:52 AM -0400 5/5/10, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > probably not really a PHP question but i'll take a chance, anyway. >i want to examine the network throughput i can get when continually >uploading files from a PHP script via a POST request using the >HTTP_Request2 class. > > i have a client-side script that simply takes files, creates a >short POST request, and submits it to a server-side PHP script that >takes the uploaded file and saves it. no big deal. > > as a test, i created a random 5M file, then looped 100 times >submitting the same file, and timed it. while the system and user >time was only a few seconds total, real (clock on the wall) time was >2.5 minutes. this suggests that the bottleneck is simply network >transfer speed. > > while i'm doing these uploads, is there a way to monitor network >throughput? if this is truly the bottleneck, the only real solution >will be to pay a premium for faster network access, i suppose. but >i'd just like to be able to produce some numbers or evidence that >that's the actual problem. thoughts? > >rday You might want to test your connection, such as: http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com
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