Taking advantage of the power of simulation analysis and model behaviours that are difficult to capture using theoretical queuing systems and Markov chain models.

• Multi-core server machine with thread-to-core affinity (once a thread is "assigned" to a core, it will remain there)
• Multi-threaded Web server
• Thread-per task model - until max is reached, after which queuing for threads starts.
• Round-robin scheduling, with context-switching overhead
• Request time-outs
• Users are in a standard closed loop - issue request, wait for response, think then issue request again.