It can also run in SSL mode, enabling the secure transfer of information. Because Netscape Enterprise Server is such a flexible tool for publishing, customer needs vary significantly. This document guides you through the process of defining your server workload and sizing a system to meet your performance needs. It also describes the perfdump performance utility and tuning parameters that are built into the Netscape Enterprise Server 3.6. The first step toward sizing your Enterprise 3.6 server is to determine your requirements.
Performance means different things to users and to webmasters.
You need to define what performance means for your particular situation. Note that SSL always has a significant impact on throughput, so minimize your use of SSL for best performance. The content you serve affects your server's performance. An Enterprise Server delivering mostly static HTML can run much faster than a server that has to execute CGIs for every query. The various UNIX platforms all have limits on the number of files that can be open in a single process at one time.