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specialized benchmarks that are unique to a customer’s deployment. This allows Business Partners to
assess specific server environments and compare it with various RS/6000 models and configurations.
An independent agency audits and published NotesBench reports. For the latest information and
NotesBench reports, see http://www.notesbench.org or http://ideasinternational.com.
The NotesBench Mail workload models an active user reading and sending mail, along with the
additional functions of user lookup, creating a meeting invitation (every 90 minutes), etc. Overall, the
workload is still seen as very light.
As a rule of thumb, if you divide the NotesBench users attained by 3 or 4 or 5 you may be close to an
approximate number of “real” users. If calendar functions are used, up to an additional 25% reduction in
the number of “real” users is a good rule of thumb.
NotesBench Metrics
Lotus NotesBench is a collection of benchmarks, or workloads, for evaluating the performance of
Domino servers. Of particular interest are:
Ÿ Maximum users supported: The maximum number of concurrent workload threads connected to
the server during the simulation.
Ÿ NotesMark: A throughput metric, which measures performance in terms of the cumulative number of
Notes transactions per minute (tpm) performed by all the threads in the test. Note that tpms do not
correspond 1-to-1 to Notes operations; opening a database, for example, is one transaction from a
real user's perspective, but may constitute two or three transactions from the viewpoint of NotesMark.
The following mail workload scenarios were driven by an automated environment which ran a script
similar to the mail workload from Lotus NotesBench. Some of the results shown here are not official
NotesBench measurements or results and are noted as such. Unofficial numbers may not be used
officially or publicly to compare to NotesBench results published for other Notes server environments.
For official audited NotesBench results, see http://www.notesbench.org. (Note: In order to access the
NotesBench results, you will need to apply for a userid and password through the NotesBench
organization.)
5.0.6a$17.10$23.79150,197108,000
pSeries 680 - S85
24-way, 30 partitions
(1)
5.0.3$18.04$24.8318,58313,500
pSeries 640 - B80
4-way, 7 partitions
(1)
5.0.2$22.04$27.5171,90457,600
RS/6000 Enterprise
Server S80
24-way, 24 partitions
5.0.3$14.23$19.6123,97317,400
RS/6000 Enterprise
Server F80
6-way, 2 partitions
5.0.3$17.53$23.9138,23528,032
RS/6000 Enterprise
Server M80
8-way, 4 partitions
Domino
Release
$/NotesMark$/NotesBench
User
NotesMark
(transactions
per minute)
NotesBench
Mail Users
Model
1. The results are not official NotesBench measurements or results.
Lotus Domino Server R5 Implementation Guide June 18, 2001
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