You can use the following information as a guide for estimating the load capacity of the Host On-Demand 8 Redirector on AIX and Windows. Actual numbers may vary, depending on the following factors: hardware, network traffic, server load, and the frequency of session establishment.
On average, the Redirector established 13 connections per second. Each established connection then started a new transaction (data sent) 1/10 of a second after the previous transaction ended (data received). Most services and programs were stopped on the test machines, including the Web servers.
We used the following hardware and network specifications on an isolated test network:
| Connection type | Recommended number of users |
| SSL | 10,000 |
| Non-SSL | 15,000 |
Set the following parameters in the sample service manager shell script:
| Parameter | Description |
| ulimit -n | Controls the number of open file descriptors. |
| -Xms | Minimum memory parameter for Java. It must be greater than 256 MB. |
We used the following hardware and network specifications on an isolated test network:
| Connection type | Recommended number of users |
| SSL | 3,000 |
| Non-SSL | 4,000 |