[Benchmarking] Comparison: avg time or throughput?

[Frank Warmerdam]

Jeff McKenna wrote:
> Andrea Aime wrote:
>> Hi,
>> are we going to use average time or throughput for the
>> comparison?
>>
>> I'm asking since I can configure GeoServer to optimize
>> one or the other, but not both, so to get the final
>> numbers I'd like to know what configuration I should use.
>>
> 
> I had assumed that we would point out differences in results for both 
> average time and throughput, and let the users decide which is more 
> important.  I don't think we have time to run any more tests and digest 
> the results.

Andrea,

I would have no objection to your rerunning geoserver tests to focus on
throughput if you think that would make a noticable difference.  I'd be
interested to hear how significantly different geoserver strategies affect
the different performance numbers.

Best regards,
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