A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
From the Polymer team: Tachometer is a tool for running benchmarks in web browsers. It uses repeated sampling and statistics to reliably identify even tiny differences in runtime. To compare two files, run it like so: npx tachometer variant1.html variant2.html Tachometer will open Chrome and load each HTML file, measuring the time between bench.start() and …
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The folks at Percona have benchmarked TCP/IP vs. Unix Connections to a local MySQL server. When connecting to a local MySQL instance, you have two commonly used methods: use TCP/IP protocol to connect to local address – localhost or 127.0.0.1 – or use Unix Domain Socket. If you have a choice (if your application supports …
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ab (ApacheBench) Error "apr_socket_connect(): Invalid argument (22)"
Note to self: when running ApacheBench it does not know how to resolve localhost. Instead you’ll have to use 127.0.0.1. I seem to forget this every single time I use it 🤦♂️ ~ Won’t work: localhost $ ab -n 5000 -c 50 http://localhost:8080/ This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1843412 $> Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, …
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