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From: wasserroth@vax.hmi.dfn ("Stephan Wasserroth")
Newsgroups: mod.computers.vax
Subject: Measuring response time
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Date: Tue, 13-May-86 05:15:54 EDT
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On interactive systems like VAX-computers the "response time" is an important
measure for the actual workload of the system. Everybody feels unhappy, if
the response time is high (me too). But it is difficult, to measure the
response time of a CPU. Normally the idle-time is taken as a measure for
the current load on a computer.

Now the question: Do *You* have an idea, how to determine a value describing
the current response time on a computer? Or do *You* have a program for this
purpose?

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