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scedarbaum

Throughput shouldn't (in theory) change under heavy load. Individual requests will take longer (higher latency) but requests/second served, in the steady state, will still be whatever the system can maximally serve.

abist

I think throughput could also decrease in a case where some requests that need a response from the server get slowed down because of dependencies.

Corian

For assignment 4, I noticed there was a focus on getting most requests under a certain latency which led to my group starving some requests to achieve a better score. Is this common among larger websites or do they focus on average latency instead?

ghawk

I guess the throughput change is dependent on the scheduling too. If the scheduler is akin to a round robin policy, a lot of running jobs would be continuously swapped in and out, reducing the throughput (with possible gains in decreasing latency for the new jobs).