Would anyone be able to provide a ball park number?
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Browse All TopicsWe are responding to an RFP and are being asked how many page hits per hour our web server can handle? I do not know of any easy way to determine this. We are running IIS on Windows Server 2003 x86, Dual Xeon quad core 2.0GHZ processors and 4 GB RAM w/ SAS drives in RAID10. We have about 15 web sites that run on this server and a few of them connect to a SQL server that has the same specs.
Does anyone have any ideas of how to determine the amount of page hits per hour this system can handle? Or have a ball park for me that I can give them :) ?
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I have 2 Dual Core's 2.0 connected to a Quad Core Xeon 2.0 SQL DB. Each machine can handle approximately 2,000 concurrent connections before CPU starts getting over 60%. Every page on the website has db calls. I think they would max out at about 28-3000, but haven't had it that high yet. The DB stays in roughly the same ball park CPU usage as the webservers. I never get above 2.1-2.2 gigs in use for the DB and same with the web servers, so I run 4 gigs in all 3. IO is nearly non-existent as caching on both is kept pretty high.
Just my 2 cents.
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by: MiLLeNNiuMPosted on 2009-08-25 at 14:06:37ID: 25182261
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