| Hi   I am running a web server in one of my xen guests. Using ab as a load generating tool i have collected some throughput data for different file sizes like 5KB, 10KB and 100KB. One thing that i have noticed strange here is throughput drops down in a virtual http server, it happends in case of 5KB and 10KB files.  Also it takes longer to run tests in virtual environment. 
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 | Doc Size | No. of Requests | Concurrency | Keep-alive | Time taken for tests(sec) | Requests/sec | Transfer rate (KB/s) | Transfer rate (Mb/s) | CPU% |  
| MaxKeepAliveRequests= 1000,   ServerLimit= 1024,   MaxClient= 1024 |  
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 | 5KB | 1,000,000 | 64 | On | 265.67 | 3764.03 | 19992.21 | 156.19 | 90 - 100 |  
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 | 10KB | 1,000,000 | 64 | On | 284.37 | 3516.58 | 36226.45 | 283.02 | 90 - 100 |  
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 | 100KB | 1,000,000 | 64 | On | 875.91 | 1141.67 | 114516.63 | 894.66 | 90 - 100 |  
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 | 5KB | 1,000,000 | 128 | On | 264.26 | 3784.13 | 20099.01 | 157.02 | 90 - 100 |  
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 | 10KB | 1,000,000 | 128 | On | 292.47 | 3419.18 | 35223.16 | 275.18 | 90 - 100 |  
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 | 100KB | 1,000,000 | 128 | On | 877.08 | 1140.14 | 114366.72 | 893.49 | 90 - 100 |  Regards, Fasiha Ashraf |