How fast does Coyote run?
Measuring web server performance is both easy and hard. Even though programs like webstone and WebSpec allow web server performance to be stated quantitatively, evaluating web server performance is still a tricky task. Our testing of Coyote shows that any modern MV host should be able to drive a full T-1 line to saturation without great difficulty. This can also be stated as 30-70 hits/second or 1800-4200 hits/minute. If the average page size is 5K, then this translates to 175K-350K bytes per second which is more than a T-1. The fastest test that we have run with Coyote maxxed out at about 1400K/second which is faster than normal Ethernet. This was done on a dual-proc Pentium 200 MMX server with mvBase and is far from the fastest system you can build. It was a test with large pages with very little mv/BASIC interaction and is probably not representative of what you could get from a real application with live data. Achieving decent web server performance within Coyote is pretty easy. Ge
