Determining the Performance of Your Web Server
In Chapter 1, we saw how to use benchmarking tools to determine the performance of your web service. The method outlined works well for static tests, and will give you a good idea about how well your service should run. But load testing is not suitable for frequent use on a production server, and we often need to determine how our server is performing under real-world load before making decisions about optimization. ApacheTop is the main tool we will use to inspect the performance of our web server.