Scaling Out With Object-Relational Mapping on .NET  : Page 4

On top of that, this report shows that you achieve near linear scaling when adding more application servers to a Network Load Balanced web farm.

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Issues and Optimisations

Test results are only useful if you have a complete picture of the circumstances surrounding the tests. It is easy to draw the wrong conclusions because you lack knowledge about the specifics – hence the saying “lies, damn lies and benchmarks”. We experienced a couple of issues and implemented a small number but important optimisations during the tests.

Issues

• During browsing, a call is made to the URL “[…]/petmarchev10” which returns a “Resource has moved” message quickly (.02 msec) since it doesn’t require any processing. We have subtracted these requests from all results in order to get more accurate values.
• During the distributed transaction tests we could not use Network Load Balancing because it conflicted with the Distributed Transaction Coordinator. The reason for this was never uncovered during the tests, instead we ran the servers in the application server tier in parallel, simulating that the application directs each visitor to a specific server when placing orders. This is in practice an only a minor set back, but caused some frustration when trying to pin down the problems.
• ACT only generates 2000 concurrent users per controller. We had to manually start four controllers simultaneously to simulate 8000 concurrent users. This had no affect on the tests except being cumbersome.

Optimisations
We made a handful of optimisations to improve the locking of resources in the database. These optimisations were implemented during the first days of the test and will be included in a free update of Pragmatier Data Tier Builder. Expect improved performance when running with many concurrent users.

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Network Load Balancing Technical Overview
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/docs/NLBtech2.doc
Google search: ”NLBtech2.doc”

Windows 2000 Advanced Server
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/advancedserver/default.asp

Windows Server 2003
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/

Microsoft Application Center Test 1.0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/act/htm/actml_main.asp

Visual Studio .NET
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/

SQL Server
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/default.asp

Object-Relational Mapping – Taking the Horror Out of Data Access
http://www.vb2themax.com/HtmlDoc.asp?Table=Articles&ID=580

O/R Mapped Object Persistence Is The Boon
http://www.15seconds.com/issue/020805.htm .