Looks to me like it's the number of requests acknowledged, not served.
What I don't understand is how a single real-world client could possibly
generate more than 100,000 requests per second, unless it's engaged in a
DOS attack or something similar. (???)
Maybe I'm wrong, but it appears to be somewhat contrived.
-jdr-
Lee Chin wrote:
>
> If you look at the graph at the bottom of the page, they say that their
> windows 2000 box can perform over 1 million requests per second with IIS!
>
> http://www.zdnet.co.uk/pcmag/ne/2000/11/01.html
>
> Now, I may be naive in my math (and if so I need to know why) but on a
> machine that has a 100 Mbps card, if I serve 1 million pages in one second,
> that means my page size (web page Im serving) is
>
> 100000000 (ie. 100 Mb) / 1 Million = ~ 13 bytes
>
> So if they are saying they did 1 million requests per second on a 100 Mbps
> connection, then that means their web pages were 13 bytes long....
>
> Are they nuts or am I interpreting the graph wrong?
>
> Thanks
> Lee
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