current connection question on get_global_stats

Connections/Sec is a tough one because it's totally dependent on what the connections are doing. Basically you need to determine how much data a single connection is taking up and divide the 500mb/s by that number and you can come up with a Connection/sec value. I did find a reference in the "BIG-IP 1600/1500 Platforms: Performance Per Watt" datasheet

 

 

http://www.f5.com/pdf/products/hardware-ppw-comparison-1600.pdf

 

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that gives a number of 22k but I'm not sure if that number just a baseline as to what you get with the 1600 relative to the 1500 with those values.

 

 

Wish I could give you something more concrete. I'll ask around and see if I can find you some relative numbers based on average application connection requests.

 

 

-Joe