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Phil, I understand some of your pain. We have always had sub-second response time for an average. However, for the end user that gets that 2 minute response your average potentially becomes meaningless. My thoughts are that regardless of the size of your system and it's configuration there is the risk that there will be certain applications that will not ever perform under 30 seconds. My favorite story is with JDE check reconcilliation back in V6 of JDE. The customer complained because response time was over 5 minutes for each check reconciled. Looking into the program revealed that the process took a single check number and sequentially read through the file until it verified it's match. Well, this user had not reconcilled for over 3 years. We had three years of data to run through. Under normal circumstances the amount of data would be a lot less. Once the user caught up response time on this application dropped to 5-10 seconds. Enough of my stories. My thought is that you use another metric for response time. This assumes you can get someone to buy into the idea that sometimes response time is an application problem or design issue. I think this is real critical. What we measure is the 'distribution curve of response times'. Everyone is going to be slightly different but what we measure is the standard 4 buckets: 0-1 second, 1-2, seconds, 2-4 seconds, 4+ seconds. 95% of our transactions fall within sub-second, 98% within 2 seconds, and so on. Right now I forget how we track that but I am pretty sure it is a component of performance tools. Not sure if this is what you are looking for but hope it helps. Michael Crump Saint-Gobain Containers 1509 S. Macedonia Ave. Muncie, IN 47302 (765)741-7696 (765)741-7012 f (800)428-8642 mailto:mike.crump@saint-gobain.com prumschlag@phd inc.com To: midrange-l@midrange.com cc: 12/13/01 11:11 Subject: Interactive Response Time AM Please respond to midrange-l I have been asked to come up with a plan so that no user will ever have to wait more than 30 seconds for an AS/400 interactive response. The request (from the company president) was based on a completely out-of-context observation of one user who had to wait 2 minutes for a response to one particular screen on one occurrence. The president's intent is good, he just does not know what he is asking for. <snip> Just for the record, Ops Navigator shows that throughout the day our average response time is normally under 2 seconds, and often under 1 second. We are running JDE World on a 730 dual processor. <snip> Thanks. Phil _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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