[HN Gopher] Latency, Throughput, and Walking on Escalators
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       Latency, Throughput, and Walking on Escalators
        
       Author : hakejam
       Score  : 16 points
       Date   : 2021-06-16 17:53 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | LorenPechtel wrote:
       | There's a middle ground here that the author is missing:
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       | It's not that walking on the escalator slows it's throughput, but
       | that a walking lane on the escalator slows it's throughput.
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       | Thus the best throughput is obtained when you go with a policy of
       | stay right if possible but no walking lane. Under heavy load this
       | degrades to standing, under light load it permits people to move
       | faster.
        
         | bryondowd wrote:
         | Yeah, I've never encountered the social behavior the author
         | describes. In my experience, people walk when the escalator
         | happens to be clear ahead of them, and stop behind the next
         | cluster of standers. I've never seen standers make an effort to
         | stay to one side. So walking is just an opportunistic and
         | limited benefit to the system. Perhaps its regional.
        
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