Niagara optimized ‘cooltools’


I’m in the process of doing some testing on the T1000 which I currently have on test at the moment. Some of these tests will be entirely focused on the performance of Cheffy, which uses a combination of Apache, MySQL and Perl.I’ve also been thinking about testing some key elements in terms of where you might use a T1000 – in a web serving farm where you want high performance out your SAMP stack, say for blogging of Wikis, where you have a lot of small, simple, queries that you want executed as quickly as possible. Most variants of this are based around Apache/MySQL/PHP.Getting everything set up and organized for that isn’t trivial, so it’s great to see a package like the Cool Tools CoolThreads Optimized Open Source Software Stack (Cool Stack)The package includes Niagara optimized versions of:

  • Apache
  • MySQL
  • PHP
  • Perl
  • Squid
  • Tomcat

This includes a bundled configuration of Apache with MPM pre-fork and PHP, SSL and Perl modules.It should go without saying that I’ll be testing this stack against my own configurations and builds as part of the tests.


One response to “Niagara optimized ‘cooltools’”

  1. […] Until then, I’ll just have to keep testing the T1000. I’ve spent 3 days now trying out the Cooltools, and I’ll probably be posting the preliminary results this week. […]