MONITORING

R5 Simple Mail Routing test
The R5 Simple Mail Routing test models an active Notes mail user receiving and sending mail, composing and sending meeting invitations, and scheduling appointments. The script contains an average of 15 minutes of waiting; therefore, an average user runs this test no more than four times an hour.

For each iteration of the script, five documents are read, two documents are updated, two documents are deleted, one view is opened and closed, one view-scroll is performed, one database is opened and closed, and several other operations are performed. One message is sent to each active user approximately every 96 minutes; the same frequency is used for appointments and invitations.

Because mail routing and delivery are performed on the SUT, locate the destination addresses and the active users' mail files on the SUT.

The measurements obtained by this test are:


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

To read the code in the test script, see the topic R5 Simple Mail Routing 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 Domino 6, pproximately 13MB for each user ( mail database). In Domino 5, approximately 7.5MB.
Subsequent Disk RequirementIncrease of 80KB for each user, per hour


The R5 Simple Mail Routing test requires at least one client and the SUT. If you use multiple client systems, identical hardware configurations are recommended.

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