[Tech] LIFO simulations

Michael Rogers m.rogers at cs.ucl.ac.uk
Wed Dec 13 09:54:05 UTC 2006


toad wrote:
>> Any suggestions for a better metric?
> 
> The proportion of requests that actually succeed. Load limiting's job is
> to allow as many successes as possible, and if that is not possible
> because of high input load, to throttle the high input load and impose a
> maximum ceiling.

That makes sense. However we also need to consider throughput in some 
way, otherwise a fast reliable network won't look any better than a slow 
reliable network.

Cheers,
Michael



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