(Yes, technically this is a documentation thing, but it needs developer input and I know a lot of you aren't on the docs list) I've put up a kind of 'skeleton' handbook page on how to benchmark Drupal code here: http://drupal.org/node/79237 This whole benchmarking thing was kind of an arcane voodoo art thing to me until recently (and actually to a large extent still is ;)), but I noticed increasingly coming across patches that basically say "Let's see some benchmarks before we even think about committing this to core." I figured there might be other people in the same boat as me, so thought it would be good to document how this was done so we're not reliant on only a handful of people (Dries, killes, etc.) to do it. Most of the stuff I've documented is in the area of setting up a performance testing environment.. I think that part's pretty solid, but I'd really appreciate any additional feedback people have on: - "Tools of the trade" - Tricks that are helpful - How to interpret results - (maybe?) How to take raw ab output and turn it into pretty graphs like on Dries's site - other stuff Thanks in advance for any help! -Angie