As you all know, I've been testing Sun's T1000 for the last few months. The process is a long one, not helped by holidays and real work which gets in the way.

The headline rates are interesting, but I'm hoping to be able to squeeze a little more of the box if I can. To test, I installed the Cool Tools stack (which includes optimized MySQL, Apache and PHP configurations), upped the configuration to support many thousands of concurrent connections, and then used a variety of tools and values to test the capabilities of the box, from small to large numbers of concurrent requests.