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  • Subject: RE: What About Price vs. Performance?
  • From: "Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:16:48 -0500

I did some more tests.  This time running the requests from one 720, and
making requests to another 720.  Here's the results.  Time is in seconds.
The program is figuring tax for the values specified.  I did not restart the
instance before each run, so any new jobs started were there for the next
run.

If someone has an IIS web server that I can hit with my test, let me know
and I'll do the same test.  I just need a URL and a query string data (or
post data).

10 requests
Min: 0.811
Max: 4.207
Avg: 2.398

50 requests
Min: 1.502      
Max: 4.789
Avg: 2.940

100 requests
Min: 0.339
Max: 5.861
Avg: 2.450

300 requests
Min: 0.121
Max: 6.746
Avg: 2.293

Don't ask me why it seems to get better the more it's getting hit (average
time).  Maybe it likes punishement, or maybe it's because of the extra jobs
that were started.  No more than 21 CGI jobs were running at the end of the
test.  

Both machines are being used, but not heavily at all.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DeLong, Eric [mailto:EDeLong@Sallybeauty.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:37 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: What About Price vs. Performance?
> 
> 
> Have you tried any stress testing? I would suspect the AS400 
> will behave
> better with large transaction rates than would the Microsoft 
> server. For one
> or two requests trickling in, you probably see better 
> response from the
> little guy, but it will get plowed under by volume.  I think 
> Brad Stone has
> been collecting performance data on AS400 as web server. 
> Perhaps he'll share
> some numbers.....
> 
> Eric DeLong
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nathanma@haaga.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 10:13 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: What About Price vs. Performance?
> 
> 
> "Get thee to the Web".  We've been hearing that from IBM.  But I have
> concerns about iSeries price vs. performance for Web applications.
> 
> I've been reviewing published performance data recently on a 
> couple of Web
> applications.  Both applications were hosted on Intel 
> servers.  Microsoft
> Windows technologies were used to develop and host the applications.
> 
> I've also been developing OS/400 based web applications lately.  The
> problem, is that these Windows based Web applications perform 
> better than
> mine, and on systems that cost 1/6 that of mine.  The 
> complexity of the
> applications, and the size of the HTML responses, are 
> comparable to mine,
> but the hardware/OS price vs. performance is better by a 
> factor of 7 to 8.
> 
> So, how can I expect the iSeries to compete as a Web 
> application server?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Nathan.
> 
> 
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