requests-per-second

How do I performance test my ASP.NET MVC website?

Hi folks, I'm wanting to find out how many requests/sec my asp.net mvc site (and asp.net mvc api) can handle. I've googled for some help and stumbled on this great slide show which talks about exactly the things i'm after. They also use a product called ApacheBench to hit the website. That application's website list it as a unix-type pr...

How to intrepret values of the ASP.NET Requests/sec performance counter?

If I monitor ASP.NET Requests/sec performance counter every N seconds, how should I interpret the values? Is it number of requests processed during sample interval divided by N? or is it current requests/sec regardless the sample interval? ...

Java based high volume transaction web application

Hi everyone, I have next to no experience dealing with high volume transactional websites and recently came across this interesting question. I am interested in knowing where the bottlenecks in a Java web application would occur under high load (thousands of requests per second). If someone could give me a high level approach to thinkin...