Speed of hardware, NICs (network interface cards), operating systems, logging configurations, network bandwidth, load balancing and many other factors must also go into benchmark requirements. One may have two identical server environments with two very different EPS requirements due to any or all of these and other variables. With consideration of these vari- ables, EPS can be established for normal and peak usage times. We developed the equations included here, therefore, to determine Peak Events (PE) per second and to establish normal usage by exchanging the PEx for NEx (Normal Events per second). .
