Scalability Studies
Thischapter describes the results of scalability studies. You can refer to these studies for a
sampleof how the server performs, and how you might congure your system to best take
advantageof Web Server’s strengths.
Thischapter includes the following topics:
■“StudyGoals” on page 103
■“StudyConclusion” on page 104
■“Hardware”on page 104
■“Software”on page 105
■“Congurationand Tuning” on page 105
■“PerformanceTests and Results” on page 108

Study Goals

Thegoal of the tests in the study was to shows how well Sun Java System Web Server 7 scales.
Thetests also helped to determine the conguration and tuning requirements for dierent
typesof content.
Thestudies were conducted with the following content:
■100%static
■100%C CGI
■100%Perl CGI
■100%NSAPI
■100%Java servlets
■100%PHP/FastCGI
■E-commerceweb application with large inventory
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