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9.3.1 Test environment
Our choice of test environment, like yours, was constrained by the hardware that was available to us. We would have liked to run the tests on P5 servers using a SAN, and stored the database on disks with non-volatile cache.
The hardware we used is, however, a typical component of many small to medium sized Web sites today. The results show for the non-cached benchmark we were limited by the speed of the processors and not the disks; however, when caching is used processing power is no longer the gating factor, and more performance analysis is required to see how we can keep response times constant for an increasing numbers of users.