Throughput measurements

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Published on 2010-04-21T09:29:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 9:33 UTC
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I wrote simple load testing tool for testing performance of Java modules. One problem I faced is algorithm of throughput measurements. Tests are executed in several thread (client configure how much times test should be repeated), and execution time is logged. So, when tests are finished we have following history:

4 test executions
2 threads
36ms overall time

- idle
* test execution
       5ms    9ms     4ms      13ms
T1  |-*****-*********-****-*************-|
      3ms  6ms     7ms      11ms
T2  |-***-******-*******-***********-----|
    <-----------------36ms--------------->

For the moment I calculate throughput (per second) in a following way: 1000 / overallTime * threadCount.

But there is problem. What if one thread will complete it's own tests more quickly (for whatever reason):

      3ms 3ms 3ms 3ms
T1  |-***-***-***-***----------------|
      3ms  6ms     7ms      11ms
T2  |-***-******-*******-***********-|
    <--------------32ms-------------->

In this case actual throughput is much better because of measured throughput is bounded by the most slow thread. So, my question is how should I measure throughput of code execution in multithreaded environment.

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