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This document is the beginning of a new performance testing initiative for the Fedora Repository and components integrated into Fedora Commons Framework. This work builds upon the superb performance tests and analysis performed by Fiz Karlsruhe, Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) and the performance testing included in each release of the Fedora Repository. We hope this will provide a common performance testing framework and begin a community effort to characterize Fedora performance to document best practices for configuration and identify bottlenecks for subsequent software development. It is presumed that most performance testing will be black-box (through the APIs) but instrumentation may be added to help find bottlenecks.
Goals Include:
- Bottleneck analysis - Eliminate or remove bottlenecks in the current code base
- Feature analysis - Guide the addition of new feature with performance information
- Tuning analysis - Provide information to help tune installations and identify if your installation is under performing
- Sizing information - Provide information to permit installation to size their systems and subsystems
- Performance scalability test
- Size scalability test
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