Re: Axis Response Time appears linear with load

[Mike Spreitzer]

Well, considering that just going through the message processing overhead of Tomcat and Axis is work, why do you not expect the response time to scale linearly with load?  BTW, did you mean to complain about the response time being proportional to load, or merely scaling linearly with it (i.e., being some a + b*load)?

My group has done some response time measurements of various frameworks and applications.  We typically give a system more than 60 seconds to stabilize and take a reading.  We typically find the response time grows more than linearly with load, if we explore sufficiently high loads.

Thanks,
Mike