Hardware Characteristics - Compaq 117755-003 - ProSignia - 740 White Paper

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Alert Thresholds track the number of times a particular client has connected through the firewall
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in a given time period. For the purposes of benchmark testing, this feature was disabled so that it
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would not skew transaction times.
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In order to determine the affect in performance of the firewall system, software and hardware
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changes were evaluated and compared to a base system. Only one software/hardware
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configuration change at a time was made from the base system to determine the affect it may
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have. Since only one change is ever made to the base system for every benchmark run, decisions
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can be made to change firewall configurations in order to increase performance. It also allows
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those decisions to be made based on sets of individual configuration changes, since multiple
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individual changes can lead to higher performance than one individual change.
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This section discusses hardware and software characteristics used in the benchmark tests. It also
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describes in detail, how to make the configuration changes in hardware and software so it can be
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referenced at a later time.
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Hardware Characteristics

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The various hardware options used in the tests are described below. Each hardware configuration
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change made was re-configured using the Compaq system partition utilities found by pressing the
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F10 key during the system bootup process.
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Processor
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Processor
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Pentium Pro 200, 512KB cache
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Uni and Dual,
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Pentium Pro 200, 256KB cache
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Pentium
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