What does Throughput actually measure in Web Services?
I can’t seem to find the answer to this one in any of my fat Mac OS X Server Books or in any of the other threads… what exactly is the Throughput graph showing in Server Admin’s Web Service Graphs window? How does this relate to traffic to the website and what can you do if the graph appears to be hitting a ceiling all the time? I’m asking because we started getting complaints from customers hitting our store website that it seemed slow or that they would lose their connection to the site intermittently. We then noticed the “blue wall” in the Web Services Throughput graph and that it had a flattened off ceiling at around 8 KB/s with a few dips here and there. We have done a lot of things recently to increase traffic to the site, so, thinking that maybe we had the Max Simultaneous Connections set too low at the default 500 we increased it to 1300. That alleviated the problem with customers not connecting but the blue wall has now increased from an 8 KB/s ceiling to a 15 KB/s ceiling w
