Performance Tuning

Welcome to the Performance Tuning section. This section explains how to adjust a number of property values to increase the performance of the Web server. Once you have made adjustments to your system, we recommend that you continue to use activity logs and monitoring tools to provide feedback on Web server performance.

This section contains:

About Performance Tuning: Conceptual topic describing performance issues.
Throttling Bandwidth: Changing the bandwidth used by a Web server and by individual Web sites.
Estimating Traffic: Adjusting settings to balance memory use with speed.
Limiting Connections and Setting Timeout: Setting limits on the number of connections allowed to a Web server.
Enabling HTTP Keep-Alives: Using HTTP Keep Alives to maintain an open connection.
Choosing the Right Connection: Mathematical formulas to figure the optimum Internet connection type for your site.
Finding Hardware Bottlenecks: Recommendations on when to upgrade hardware.

This section does not contain information on:

Performance aspects of creating transactions and isolating applications; see Configuring Applications.
Using various counters to measure performance; see Performance Monitoring.
Tracking Web site traffic; see Logging Web Site Activity.