Probing a Webserver with 3000 Users

Running a test with up to 3000 users against an IIS6 server

 

In this test up to 3.000 users access the homepage (static HTML file of 7kb) of an IIS6 server every 10 seconds.


Test Results

Maximum Pageviews ~1.050.000 pageviews per hour
Maximum Server Bandwidth ~10.000 kBit/s

 

wst6 eng

 

 

Test Setup

Test Type

RAMP (number of users increases during the test time)
Number of Users 3.000
Click Delay 10 sec
Tested Web Server DELL Dimension, 1.5 Ghz Intel P4, 400 MB RAM, Windows 2003 Small Business Server, IIS6 (out-of-the-box installation), 1 GBit Network Card
Test Client DELL Poweredge 750, 2.8 GHz Intel XEON (Hyperthreading), 2 GB RAM, Windows 2003 Server, (out-of-the-box installation) (running Webserver Stress Tool)