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Server Hardw are Hardw are m odel Processor Mem ory Net w orking Layer 4 perf orm ance Connect ions per second Layer 7 perf orm ance HTTP connect ions per second HTTP request s per second (0k) HTTP request s per second (2k) HTTP request s per second (8k) HTTP m ax. t hroughput SSL perf orm ance SSL t ransact ions per second SSL m ax. t hroughput HTTP cont ent caching perf orm ance Cache request s per second Cache m ax. t hroughput Com pression perf orm ance Com pression t hroughput : 8k f iles Com pression t hroughput : 64k f iles Com pression t hroughput : 512k f iles 0.76 Gb it s 1.06 Gb it s 1.21 Gb it s 1.63 Gb it s 2.64 Gb it s 3.21 Gb it s 3.70 Gb it s 4.44 GBit s 4.46 GBit s 185,000 7.56 Gb it s 400,000 8.0 Gb it s 836,000 10 Gb it s* 8,270 2.26 Gb it s 17,900 4.52 Gb it s 23,100 8.4 Gb it s 44,200 101,000 66,700 38,600 3.91 Gb it s 89,700 213,000 132,000 67,200 5.0 Gb it s 155,000 419,000 282,000 141,000* 10 Gb it s* 30,600 53,000 105,000 Su n Fir eX4100 M2 2 x Du al Co r e Op t er o n 2216 8Gb Su n Fir e X4150 2 x Qu ad Co r e In t el Xeo n X5460 8Gb Su n Fir e x4170 2 x Qu ad Co r e In t el Xeo n X5570 12 GB 10Gb

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These benchmark tests were conducted in the Zeus testing labs using software clients and servers, with 64-bit Linux and various general-purpose hardware servers. * Quad-core Xeon X5570: these tests were network bound to 10GBits. Server exhibited up to 70% idle time (Cache Max Throughput tests).

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About t he t est s
Layer 4 perf orm ance:
Connections per second measures the sustained rate at which new connections can be established from the client to the server, a read-write transaction (HTTP request and zero-byte response body) conducted and the connection closed.

Layer 7 perf orm ance:

HTTP connections per second measures the sustained rate at which new connections can be established from the client to the server, an HTTP transaction conducted and the connection closed. This test uses keepalive connections to the server nodes. HTTP requests per second measures the sustained rate of HTTP transactions (0Kb, 2Kb and 8Kb response body) using client-side and server-side keep alive connections. HTTP max. throughput uses large HTTP responses to measure the maximum sustained response throughput.

SSL perf orm ance:

SSL transactions per second measures HTTPS requests per second; the test uses 1024 bit RSA keys, RC4 bulk encryption, small HTTP responses and no session reuse. SSL max. throughput uses large HTTP responses to measure the maximum sustained SSL response throughput. The test uses 1024 bit RSA keys and RC4 bulk encryption.

HTTP cont ent caching perf orm ance:

Cache requests per second measures the sustained rate of HTTP transactions (0Kb response body) served directly from the Zeus Traffic Manager content cache. Cache max. throughput serves large HTTP responses from the cache to measure the maximum sustained response throughput.

Com pression perf orm ance:

Compression throughput tests the rate at which Zeus Traffic Manager can compress HTML files of various sizes, balancing request handling and bulk compression performance.

Perf orm ance Considerat ions

All benchmarks are carefully constructed to extract the maximum performance from the system under test. Real world conditions, such as slow, unreliable network connections, uneven traffic profiles and deep packet inspection mean that benchmark figures (particularly throughput) may not be achieved when managing live traffic. The Zeus KnowledgeHub (http://knowledgehub.zeus.com/) makes a number of recommendations on performance tuning Zeus software and the following whitepapers from http://www.zeus.com/ may be useful: Benchmarking Zeus Traffic Manager Accelerating Web Applications with Zeus Traffic Manager

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