[Moodle BenchMark] Need Beta-tester

Re: [Moodle BenchMark] Need Beta-tester

by James Steerpike -
Number of replies: 0

Could you describe how to use this?

I recently lost my main site and so created a new Moodle site from the backup - set up in one evening from a new server so no real time for testing.  I wanted to know its performance so I ran the benchmark test. Results weren't bad, about 300 with the areas of concern the database.  Clicking around, my new site looked responsive. I updated all student passwords on the new site and in the next class asked them to log in to test the new site.

There were about 60 in that class using their phones and each was being redirected to the "Must change password" screen. Except page loading  was terribly slow - probably a minute or more. My site was seriously under-powered. In desperation I ran the benchmark again - I know, not a good idea - and the new benchmark  was around 14000 and the Moodle loading time was around 2 minutes. My site was like a bicycle, quick away from the traffic lights but incapable of handling any real load.

So how do we use this plugin? Are there recommendations for testing under load?