performance meassuring

[Ing. Todor Colakov]

I have mailserver, webserver, DNS and NFS server. I know there is no specific
performance value, because of that I wanted make separated lists for those basic types
(Maybe my english wasn't descriptive enough for that :( ). And also I wanted know why that
or other value is important for the concrete type of server... I know it all stands on the
knowledges of HW architectures, kernel, FS and alike... but I don't have these knowdleges
(yet) and I need to meassure server. Because I need to have feedback, when changing
setting of server.
Todor
P.S. Can the number of packets per second be the optimistic assumption of raw network
processing power of the server?