Measuring the capacity of a Web server under realistic loads

World Wide Web

Volumn 2, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 69-83

  Banga, Gaurav ^a   Druschel, Peter ^a  

^a Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Client Machine; Client Process; Packet Loss; Request Generation; Request Rate

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; HTTP; WEB SERVICES; WIDE AREA NETWORKS;

CLIENT MACHINE; CLIENT PROCESS; CLIENT REQUEST; DELAY AND PACKET LOSS; PACKETS LOSS; PERFORMANCE; REQUEST GENERATION; REQUEST RATE; WEB SERVERS; WIDE-AREA NETWORKS;

PACKET LOSS;

EID: 85035563257     PISSN: 1386145X     EISSN: 15731413     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1019292504731     Document Type: Article

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