HP ML570 Novell NetWare 6 performance tuning guidelines for ProLiant servers - Page 40
WebBench test results, processor scalability performance
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Novell NetWare 6 performance tuning guidelines for ProLiant servers WebBench test results processor scalability performance The Ziff-Davis WebBench 4.1 NetWare_simple_nsapi_wb41 was used to measure the performance of the Web server software and hardware. Each of the WebBench client issues HTTP GET requests to the server. The server responds to the requests as fast as possible by formatting the response in a readable format before sending it to the clients. The results are calibrated as transaction per second (TPS) or throughput in bytes per second. Notes: • The number of threads in simple_nsapi_wb41.tst script was increased from 1 thread to 5 threads in order to put more workload stress on the server. • The workload receive buffer size was changed from the default 4 K to 32 K for the test. • The HTTP configuration for the test was modified as follows: %HPPT1.0 request 0 % persistent connection requests 100 minimum request per PC 20 maximum request per PC 30 % pipeline request 0 The results of the WebBench performance tests are discussed in the following sections. processor scalability simply means the capacity of a server to do more work at reasonable response times as you increase the number of processors. In order to quantify the processor-scaling effects, use the following commands to specify the number of processors to enable during a particular test run: • Type stop processors 1 2 3 on the console command prompt to enable ONE processor for the test. • Type stop processors 2 3 on the console command prompt to enable TWO processors for the test. • Type stop processors 4 on the console command prompt to enable THREE processors for the test. Note: By default all four processors are enabled. Do not type the above commands to enable all four processors for the test. 40