After a Windchill system is restarted the first user(s) accessing the system can experience slower performance for some actions while numerous Windchill caches are being populated. These caches could be pre-populated before users started using the system again by using the Apache 'ab' utility found in the Apache/bin directory.
The usage is: ab -A user:pass "URL"
Where URL can be any Windchill. When Windchill is using SSL the 'abs' utility should be used instead.
i.e.
D:\ptc\Windchill_10.0\Apache\bin\abs.exe -A username/password "https://pds.ptc.com/Windchill/app/#ptc1/project/listFiles?oid=OR%3Awt.projmgmt.admin.Project2%3A921844552&u8=1"
The output from the command also contains performance metrics from the request too.
Sample output:
D:\ptc\Windchill_10.0\Apache\bin\ab.exe http://www.google.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 655654 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/
Benchmarking www.google.com (be patient).....done
Server Software: gws
Server Hostname: www.google.com
Server Port: 80
Document Path: /
Document Length: 13996 bytes
Concurrency Level: 1
Time taken for tests: 0.087 seconds
Complete requests: 1
Failed requests: 0
Write errors: 0
Total transferred: 14732 bytes
HTML transferred: 13996 bytes
Requests per second: 11.49 [#/sec] (mean)
Time per request: 87.009 [ms] (mean)
Time per request: 87.009 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests)
Transfer rate: 165.35 [Kbytes/sec] received
Connection Times (ms)
min mean[+/-sd] median max
Connect: 26 26 0.0 26 26
Processing: 61 61 0.0 61 61
Waiting: 34 34 0.0 34 34
Total: 87 87 0.0 87 87
