Establishing performance objectives

The process of establishing performance objectives is described in this section in the following sections:

Performance objectives often consist of a list of transactions and expected timings for each. Ideally, through them, good performance can be easily recognized and you know when to stop further tuning. They must, therefore, be:

Such objectives may be defined in terms such as:

After you have defined the workload and estimated the resources required, you must reconcile the desired response with what you consider attainable. These objectives must then be agreed and regularly reviewed with users.

Establishing performance objectives is an iterative process involving the activities described in the rest of this section.

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