PERFORMANCE

Idle workload
The Idle workload establishes an upper limit of the number of sessions that a Domino server can support. The test only establishes sessions between a client and server; no Notes transactions are carried out. No resources other than those required to start a session are used.

The resulting capacity metric is the maximum number of user sessions that can exist concurrently. You can use this metric to help set up and configure the test environment.

To read the code in the test script, see the topic Idle Workload Script.

Running the Idle Workload test

1. Make sure that you already set up clients and servers for Server.Load.

2. On the Domino Administrator client, start Server.Load by running SLOAD.EXE from the program directory.

3. In the Test Type field, choose Built-In, and then choose Idle Workload from the list.

4. Click the Script Variables tab, and enter these values:
VariableAction
MailServerEnter the canonical name of the mail server -- for example, CN=MailServer1/O=Acme
MaxSessionsEnter the thread capacity of the client. The maximum is 1500.
5. Click the Test Parameters tab. If you are running the test on multiple clients, increment the value of the Starting Thread No. parameter when you run the test on each client.

6. (Optional) Click the Stop Conditions tab to set a stop condition.

7. Click Execute.

8. (Optional) Select metrics to monitor.


9. (Optional) In the "Server to receive console commands" field, enter the name of the SUT.

10. Click Start Test.

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