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Sizing and Performance Guidance

Sizing Examples

Metric	Value	Value
Number of simultaneous users (threads)	10	100
Data throughput (kB/s)	8005	8070
Request throughput (req/s)	97.91280654	97.31414474
Total requests	35934	355002
Total time	367	3648
CPU Cores	2`	8
RAM	8 GB	16 GB

Load values with 10 threads (left) / 100 threads (right)

Load Chart with 10 threads (left) / 100 threads (right)

Measurement Methodology

MetaDefender Core connection was disabled to eliminate potential bottleneck caused by Core
100 ms delay was applied between requests
Each user (thread) requested the whole dataset 10 times

Files were requested in a randomized fashion

Test Environment

Traffic Mix

File Type	Percentage of traffic
Archive (zip)	2.8%
Image	2.5%
Microsoft Office	10.7%
PDF	1.5%
Windows executable (exe)	24.2%
HTML	19.6%
Text	37.3%
Total	98.6%
Rounding error	1.4%

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Sizing and Performance Guidance Sizing Examples Test Environment Traffic Mix Load values with 10 threads (left) / 100 threads (right)Load Chart with 10 threads (left) / 100 threads (right)