You can get a pretty good measure of this using the iostat tool. % iostat -dx /dev/sda 5 Device: rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/s rsec/s wsec/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda 0.78 11.03 1.19 2.82 72.98 111.07 45.80 0.13 32.78 1.60 0.64 The disk utilisation is listed in the last column. This is defined as … Read more
The short answer is: Nobody can answer this question except you. The long answer is that benchmarking your specific workload is something that you need to undertake yourself, because it’s a bit like asking “How long is a piece of string?”. A simple one-page static website could be hosted on a Pentium Pro 150 and … Read more
We are doing a load/performance test on our Azure cloud service, where we hosted Web APIs. After a certain number of calls (say 500), cloud service is giving bad request error. We have built web APIs in c# using web role and hosted them in Azure cloud service. I went through a few articles/forums and … Read more