When drawing a graph of the response time performance of a system with increasing load it will usually follow a standard profile, namely:
A very low load increasing the load will actually improve the performance of the system slightly. This is because most systems use various caching mechanisms and if there is too little load none of the caches will have data in.- As the load increases a near flat region will be experienced, where all requests act as if they have near dedicated resources available to them. Continue reading ‘The generic system performance profile’ »
