Overhead in Ingest Channel Capacity Planning
Millsap’s ACM Queue article on performance tuning introduced me to some basics of queuing theory. The article discusses some considerations for tuning the performance of a database. One aspect that Millsap addresses is queuing delay, or the amount of time it takes for a system to begin processing a request. This is the amount of time the request waits in the queue before the system acts on it. As utilization of the system increases, the delay increases. A request needs to wait until more things in front finish. ...