"Rate" in aggregate report listener

[Jordi Salvat i Alabart]

Hi.

I just can't understand what's the meaning of the "Rate" field in the Aggregate Report listener. I know the equivalen discussion arose a while ago for the Graph Results, but I've been re-reading all the e-mails in that thread and I'm still clueless.

This rate is calculated as

Number of threads / Latency

and I just can't find which 'physical' dimension this is measuring. Sounds like a "the rate we would obtain if we were hitting the server with this request only, but not increasing the load beyond the current one". Somewhat nonsense -- at least to me. Is there anyone to whom it does?

I'm keen to replace this with the real load we're putting on the server: request count divided by test duration. This is a figure I very often need when load-testing applications, since I can then make statements in the lines of "this box can produce N pages per second with latencies of X ms".

Comments?

Salut,

Jordi.


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