Application Server Benchmarking Fundamentals

Application Server Benchmarking Fundamentals
By Prashanth Ponnachath, eBD SWAT Team, Sybase Inc






















1 Table of Contents

1 Table of Contents ................................................................................................................................... 2
2 Executive Summary.................. 3
3 Definitions.............................................................................................................................................. 3
3.1 Benchmark...................................................................................................................................... 3
3.2 Application Server.......................................................................................................................... 3
3.3 Web Server ..................................................................................................................................... 3
4 Benchmarking Strategy .......................................................................................................... 3
5 Stress test vs. Performance test............................................................................................................... 4
5.1 Examples of flawed application server stress tests......................................................................... 4
6 A sound application server benchmark.......................... ...