PERFORMANCE

Web Mail workload
The Web Mail workload models an active Web Mail user using a browser to send, retrieve, and delete IBM® Lotus® Notes® mail. The script contains an average of 15 minutes of waiting, so an average user runs this test no more than four times an hour. For each iteration of the script, there is a check and retrieval of POP3 mail messages. When sending messages, each user sends a mail message to the number of users specified by the NumMessageRecipients variable, no more than every 15 minutes. The messages sent by each simulated user are delivered to the mail databases of other simulated users on the SUT.

Metrics

The measurements obtained by this test are:


The resulting capacity metric for a Web Mail server is the maximum number of users that can be supported before the average user response time becomes unacceptable.

Note You can review the Web Mail Workload script.

Hardware considerations

The following hard disk requirements apply to the SUT and, during some tests, to the destination systems that receive mail from the SUT:
Initial Disk RequirementIn IBM® Lotus® Domino® 6 or more recent, approximately 13MB on the SUT for each user (mail database). In Domino 5, approximately 5.5MB.
Subsequent Disk RequirementIncrease of 1MB an hour for the duration of the test. (This figure is not dependent on the number of users.)

Increase of 100KB an hour as impacted by the value of the nthIteration setting in the NOTES.INI file

The growth rate of each database is a function of the ratio of the number of users and recipients sending and receiving mail.



Tips for running the Web Mail workload

1. Use these server commands.
CommandDescription
Show TasksShow either the Database Server task (IBM® Lotus® Notes® clients) or HTTP task (Web users).
Show Stat MailMonitor message counters
Show Stat Domino.Requests.*Monitor message counters
2. If authentication errors occur on the IBM® Lotus® Domino® server console, verify the password in the HTTP field of the respective user's Person document in the SUT's Domino Directory; edit the Domino Directory if necessary.

3. From the SUT console, enter this command to display additional routing information:


4. Check that the database properties for the mail database: 5. In the Server document on the Internet Protocols - HTTP tab, complete these fields:
FieldAction
Optimize performance based on the following primary activityChoose Advanced (Custom Settings) to view and modify the number of HTTP threads.
Number Active ThreadsSpecify one active thread for every 10 Web Mail users.
6. Make sure that the administrator has Manager access to the Domino Directory.

7. Authentication

Running the Web Mail workload

1. Make sure that you already completed the procedure to run the Web Mail Initialization workload.

2. Run the "Create NotesBench Mail Person Documents" agent to create the desired number of Person documents in the Domino Directory.

3. On the Domino Administrator client, start Server.Load.

4. In the Test Type field, choose Built-In, and then choose Web Mail Initialization Workload from the list.

5. Click the Script Variables tab, and enter these values:
VariableAction
HTTPHostEnter the TCP/IP address or host name of the Domino Web server
nb_dbdirEnter a database directory relative to the Notes data directory. Recommended value is mail\.
WebPreferencesOffMake sure this is set to Off. If it's On, the script sets the mail database to be its own owner.
6. Click the Test Parameters tab. If you are running the test on multiple clients, increment the value of the Starting Thread No. parameter when you run the test on each client.

7. (Optional) Click the Stop Conditions tab to set a stop condition.

8. Click Execute.

9. (Optional) Select metrics to monitor.

10. (Optional) In the "Server to receive console commands" field, enter the name of the SUT.

11. Click Start Test.

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