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Other Systems and Configurations
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This section includes test runs with other systems and configurations. It also includes other runs
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using the base system described above with other configurations.
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Graph 7 includes runs #16, #17, and #18 for ProSignia 500, ProLiant 800, and the ProLiant 4500
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respectively. These runs should not be compared to the base system because of the configuration
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The low-end server, the ProSignia 500, had an overall average of 273 TPM for all virtual clients
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pushing almost an estimated 1.9Mb per seconds through the system. The ProLiant 800 had an
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overall average for all virtual clients of 620 TPM with a high of 665 TPM at 48 virtual clients.
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The ProLiant 4500 had an overall average of 398 TPM for its virtual client runs. The average
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failure rates for these test runs are less than 1%.
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Another test run on the base system showed that the firewall could handle more than 10Mb of
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traffic through the firewall for HTTP and FTP transfers. This test added the number of virtual
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clients to a total of 144 virtual clients on 8 physical client machines. The test results show that the
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TPM was 1696 and 10.67Mb throughput was calculated for data passing through the firewall.
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Tests Results with HTTP Only

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The same model is used for HTTP only sets of tests as for the tests with HTTP and FTP. The
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same base system is used with no changes except that 100 percent of the traffic is HTTP traffic.
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The benchmark is run using the base system with the same test bed setup, 3 physical servers and
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8 physical clients, with 1 to 72 virtual clients and 6 virtual servers. The set of tests run in this
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section were designed to show the performance increases that had been made to the HTTP
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daemon. These increases in performance from the HTTP daemon are attributed to the threaded
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enhancement, the use of IO completion ports, and caching of the rules. This section presents the
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Base Run, DNS Lookups for HTTPD and HTTP Cache, and 100 Rules.
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Runs #16, #17, and #18 in TPM
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Virtual Clients
Prosignia 500,
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Proliant 800, PP200,
256C
Proliant 4500, P133
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