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Capacity planning for web server

 
Mott Given
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Capacity planning for web server

Capacity planning for web servers is rather difficult as the data is bursty and follows a power tail distribution. Does anyone have any statistical formulas for assessing the amount of data that must be analyzed versus the resultant error margins in the performance or capacity data that you generate from an analytical queueing model?
Mott Given, mgiven@dsdc.dla.mil
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harry d brown jr
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Re: Capacity planning for web server

WOW, that's a lot of big words. Just kidding. Building a web server is more complicated than building a server for apps like oracle. What I've done, is build big fast boxes, get everything running, and tweak the crap out of it. I'd love to have modeling software to do it, and I know that there are supposed tools out there to do it (with supposed very underlined).
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