On the Asymptotic Behavior of Time-Sharing Systems.

Autor: Lipsky, Lester, Chee-Min Henry Lieu, Tehranipour, Abolfazl, van de Liefvoort, Appie, Schwetman, Herbert D.
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Zdroj: Communications of the ACM; Oct82, Vol. 25 Issue 10, p707-714, 8p, 2 Diagrams, 6 Graphs
Abstrakt: It is shown that time-sharing systems may have asymptotic response times whose dependence on the number of active users is not exclusively a function of 'think time' and maximal throughput under heavy load conditions. Two such cases (when there are multiple bottlenecks and when the time-sharing system shares the computer with batch jobs) are examined in detail. These results reduce the estimate of how many terminals may be supported by a given computer system without excessive queueing for resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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