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Multiple usage of the CD PLUS/UNIX system: performance in practice
In August 1994, the CD PLUS/Ovid literature retrieval system based on UNIX
was activated for the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Erasmus
University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. There were up to 1,200 potential
users. Tests were carried out to determine the extent to which searching
for literature was affected by other end users of the system. In the
tests, search times and download times were measured in relation to a
varying number of continuously active workstations. Results indicated a
linear relationship between search times and the number of active
workstations. In the "worst case" situation with sixteen active
workstations, the time required for record retrieval increased by a factor
of sixteen and downloading time by a factor of sixteen over the "best
case" of no other active stations. However, because the worst case seldom,
if ever, happens in real life, these results are considered acceptable