Workload Characterization of a Large Systems Conference Web Server

  • Authors:
  • Aniket Mahanti;Carey Williamson;Leanne Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CNSR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Seventh Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a workload characterization study of the WWW2007 conference Web site. We use both server-sideband client-side measurement to collect data for our analysis. The collected datasets contain approximately 10 million requests from about130,000 unique visitors generating 215 GB of traffic volume during a 1-year period. Our analysis focuses on usage behaviour, client errors, client network properties,bandwidth, and robot activity of the site.In addition to the workload characterization study itself,our work also offers a comparative discussion of different approaches to Web data analysis, and some insights for future organizers of large systems conferences with a significant Web presence.