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Scalability Studies

This chapter describes the results of scalability studies. You can refer to these studies for a

sample of how the server performs, and how you might congure your system to best take

advantage of Web Server’s strengths.

This chapter includes the following topics:

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“Study Goals” on page 103

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“Study Conclusion” on page 104

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“Hardware” on page 104

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“Software” on page 105

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“Conguration and Tuning” on page 105

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“Performance Tests and Results” on page 108

Study Goals

The goal of the tests in the study was to shows how well Sun Java System Web Server 7 scales.

The tests also helped to determine the conguration and tuning requirements for dierent

types of content.

The studies were conducted with the following content:

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100% static

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100% C CGI

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100% Perl CGI

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100% NSAPI

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100% Java servlets

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100% PHP/FastCGI

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