Re-evaluating
As with all performance-related work, tuning will be required. The goals are to eliminate bottlenecks, scale to a manageable status for those that cannot be eliminated, and work around those that cannot be scaled. Some examples of tuning actions and the benefits realized are:
- Increasing Web server threads raises the number of requests that could be processed in parallel.
- Adding indexes to the data server reduces I/O bottlenecks.
- Changing the defaults for several operating system variables allows threaded applications to use more heap space.
- Caching significantly reduces the number of requests to the data server.
- Increasing the number of edge/appliance servers improves load balancing.
- Upgrading the data server increases throughput.
Such results demonstrate the potential benefits of systematically applying scaling techniques and continuing to tune.
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