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From: scott@zorch.sf-bay.org (Scott Hazen Mueller)
Subject: Re: How many hits a second on a unix server?
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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 1996 15:40:37 GMT
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>300 hits/s = 25,920,000 hits/day, more than Netscape,
Netscape took 100 million one day last week.
However, they've got several roomsful of servers.
Supposedly, according to Bill Foss, they got about 60-80 hps from
Sparc/Solaris 2.x and 100-120 hps from SGI Indigo/IRIX 5(?). Assuming a flat
load distribution, those work out to 5184000, 6912000, 8640000 and 1036800
hits per day respectively. However, on my site what I call the "peak load
factor", i.e. the value by which the peak load exceeds the average, is ~2, so
those figures would have to be cut in half to represent a realistic view of
what a live server will do in production.
And, just to throw a joker into the deck, Matt Dillon reported yesterday that
he was getting 70 hps from an SGI Challenge L, which puts those SGI Indigo
figures in doubt.
\scott