I'm not sure I like the idea of printing a percentage.  It might be
unclear what the denominator was if somebody feels the urge to work
back to the actual number of skipped transactions.  I mean, I guess
it's probably just the value you passed to -R, so maybe that's easy
enough, but then why bother dividing in the first place?  The user can
do that easily enough if they want the data that way.

Indeed "skipped" and "late" per second may have an unclear denominator. If you divide by the time, the unit would be "tps", but 120 tps performance including 20 late tps, plus 10 skipped tps... I do not think it is that clear. Reporting "tps" for transaction *not* performed looks strange.

Maybe late transactions could be given as a percentage of all processed transactions in the interval. But for skipped the percentage of what? The only number that would make sense is the total number of transactions schedule in the interval, but that would mean that the denominator for late would be different than the denominator for skipped, which is basically uncomprehensible.

I agree with you that it would be good to get some statistics on
late/skipped transactions, but it's not obvious what people will want.
Late transactions, straight up?  Late by more than a threshold value?

Yes.

Under throttling transaction are given a schedule start time. When the transactions can actually start:

  (1) if it is already more late (before even starting) than the latency
      limit (a threshold), it is *NOT* started, but counted "skipped"

  (2) otherwise it is started. When it finishes, it may be
    (2a) out of the latency limit (scheduled time + limit)
         => it is counted as "late"
    (2b) within the latency limit
         => all is well

--
Fabien.


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