WebBench lets you measure
Web server software performance by running different
Web server packages on the same server hardware or by running a given Web server
package on different hardware platforms. The latest version of WebBench answers
user requests for more connections and other facilities for putting more stress
on bigger servers and more accurately modeling real-world server
workloads. WebBench's standard test suites produce two overall scores for the
server: requests per second and throughput as measured in bytes per second.
WebBench provides both static standard test suites and dynamic standard test
suites (which execute applications that actually run on the server). In
addition, you can easily create your own test suites. No matter which test
suites you use, your PC clients must be running either Windows
95/98 or Windows NT/2000 and the controller must be running Windows NT or
Windows 2000.
| WebBench |
| static_wb401 |
Throughput |
Dual CPU's HT Enabled
Dual CPU's HT Disabled
Single CPU
HT Enabled
Single CPU'HT Disabled
We ran into a peculiar problem when running the static_wb401
portion of WebBench. Whenever two CPU's were used the system had a hard time
with the connection and would drop tests. I believe that this is a software
configuration problem rather than hardware though because only this one test had
problems.
Looks like dual CPU's really help out here, request per second
with two CPU's is almost three times that of with one CPU!
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