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You should not stare blindly on the average. It's in the 1% slowest requests the dragons are hidden.
by z3t4 7y ago
You should not stare blindly on the average. It's in the 1% slowest requests the dragons are hidden.
- vitus 7y agoNot when you're looking at high utilization, as presented in the example in the article. For that particular case (a M/M/1 queue with arrival rate of 5.8 customers per hour and a service rate of 6 per hour), even your median response time is 3.5 hours. Unbounded FIFOs are _really_ bad once you get to high utilization.