Unix™ Systems Programming [Electronic resources] : Communication, Concurrency, and Threads

22.3 Project Overview

This project explores the performance tradeoffs of several server designs and examines the interaction of the implementations during disk I/O and cache access. Section 22.4 describes a test client that standardizes the offered load for different test architectures. Section 22.5 explores the use of multiple client drivers to load a single server. Sections 22.6-22.9 outline a project to compare efficiency of thread-per-request versus process-per-request implementations for different offered loads. Section 22.10 looks at the effect of disk I/O. Later sections discuss how to design experiments and how to write up the results.