Equipment
We perform all our tests on a commodity PC:
- Intel Core2Duo E8400 3GHz
- 4Gb DDR2 RAM
- SATA-2 HDD
Similar configurations are frequently provided by web hosting companies on (semi) dedicated hosting plans.
Currently we run all the tests under:
- 64-bit Windows 7, if other isn't explicitly mentioned.
- SQL Server 2005 + Shared memory communication protocol, if other isn't explicitly mentioned. This minimizes the roundtrip time and thus maximizes the overhead from ORM usage.
- Both tests and database server run on the same PC, if other isn't explicitly mentioned. Again, this minimizes the roundtrip time and thus maximizes the overhead from ORM usage.
