Measuring the Capacity of a Web Server

1st USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems, USITS 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Banga, Gaurav ^a   Druschel, Peter ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WEB SERVICES;

BURSTY TRAFFIC; CLIENT REQUEST; NETWORK SERVER; SHORT PERIODS; SOFTWARE COMPONENT; SYNTHETIC WORKLOADS; WEB SERVERS; WEB TRAFFIC;

HTTP;

EID: 6544278073     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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