What does SPECweb2009 measure?
Each workload measuring the peak performance (SPECweb2009_Banking, SPECweb2009_Ecommerce, and SPECweb2009_Support) measures the maximum number of simultaneous user sessions that a web server is able to support while still meeting specific throughput and error rate requirements. The TCP connections for each user session are made and sustained at a specified maximum bit rate with a maximum segment size intended to more realistically model conditions that will be seen on the Internet during the lifetime of this benchmark. Power (in Watts) used while running the peak performance on each of these workloads is measured as well. SPECweb2009_Power is a workload that is fully based on SPECweb2009_Ecommerce. SPECweb2009_Power is run at six different load levels, starting with the highest load level that corresponds to the maximum number of connections used in SPECweb2009_Ecommerce, ramping down to idle. The workload measures the performance to power ratio as the sum of simultaneous user sessions