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<LI><em>From</em>: Joey Hess &lt;<A HREF="mailto:joey#kitenet,net">joey#kitenet,net</A>&gt;</LI>
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J C Lawrence wrote:
&gt; I've scaled using simulated users under very artificial conditions
&gt; and a rather minimal world to just over 700 simultaneous players on
&gt; a fairly mid-range box.  Performance at that point really became a
&gt; kernel function due to poor MT work on IO under Linux (single lock).

When you speak of simultaneous users, how active were they? Did they issue 1
command per second, a constant stream of commands, or what? 

I do frequent benchmarking on my moo, but I've so far been using a
simplistic test that calculates the average number of commands per second.
(Perlmoo can manage about 170/sec right now on a P-II 350, I figure that
corresponds to more than 5x that many normal active users.) Of course this
eliminates any overhead due to threading or network IO, etc, but that can be
a good thing when you have little control over those factors anyway.

-- 
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00739" HREF="msg00739.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Petri Virkkula <a href="mailto:pvirkkul#iki,fi">pvirkkul#iki,fi</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 03:46 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00763" HREF="msg00763.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 18:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00770" HREF="msg00770.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Katrina McClelan <a href="mailto:kitkat#marcus,pants.nu">kitkat#marcus,pants.nu</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 19:34 GMT
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J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#varesearch,com">claw#varesearch,com</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 02:46 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00683" HREF="msg00683.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Joey Hess <a href="mailto:joey#kitenet,net">joey#kitenet,net</a>, Thu 10 Jun 1999, 06:14 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00731" HREF="msg00731.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#varesearch,com">claw#varesearch,com</a>, Fri 11 Jun 1999, 02:11 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00592" HREF="msg00592.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Text Parsing</A></strong>, 
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Tue 08 Jun 1999, 03:31 GMT
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Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Tue 08 Jun 1999, 22:18 GMT
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