Yes, they need updating.  It used to be an "idealized throughput
calculation", but then someone changed it without changing the docs.

-Mike

On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 12:15, Daniel Amadei wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>  
> Thanks a lot for the explanation. 
>  
> However, I think it would be great if somebody (possibly, me) send a patch for the 
> documentation, adding this info as what is described in the docs is that the rate is 
> an "idealized throughput calculation" but there is no info about how this 
> calculation is done so it will help people understand the numbers.
>  
> Please, tell me what you think.
>  
> 
> Michael Stover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The aggregate report simply counts # times that request is made divided
> by total test time. Thus, it is a real throughput number, and not an
> ideal calculation that tries to take client processing/delay time into
> account.
> 
> Because of this, the number doesn't really tell you what throughput is
> on that page, particularly - because the value is dependent on how long
> the rest of the test takes. As a result, it's not a very interesting
> number. For me, only total throughput is interesting, and you can get
> that on the graph visualizer or from the total field of the aggregate
> report (I think - it should pretty much the sum of the throughputs).
> 
> -Mike
> 
> On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 10:28, Daniel Amadei wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > I'm new to the list and I'd like to know if somebody here know how is the rate 
> > calculation done when we use an aggregate report. 
> > 
> > Thanks a lot
> > 
> > Daniel C. Amadei
> > 
> > 
> > 
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Apache Software Foundation


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