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Abstract : Workload characterization is a well-established discipline, which finds its applications in performance evaluation of modern Internet services. With the high degree of popularity of the Internet, there is a huge variation in the intensity of workload and this opens up new challenging performance issues to be addressed. Internet Services are subject to huge variations in demand, with bursts coinciding with the times that the service has the most value. Apart from these flash crowds, sites are also subject to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that can knock a service out of commission. The paper aims to study the effect of various workload distributions with the service architecture ‘thread-per-connection’ in use as a basis. The source model is structured as a sequence of activities with equal execution time requirement with an additional load time of page (loading embedded objects, images, etc.). The threads are allocated to the requests in the queue; leftover requests if any are denied service. The rejection rate is used as a criterion for evaluation of the performance of the system with a given capacity. The proposed model could form a basis for various system models to be integrated into the system and get its performance metrics (i.e. QoS) evaluated.