Delivery-Date: Wed Sep 24 21:32:57 2008
Message-Id: <200809250435.m8P4ZvdS008963@bourbon.usc.edu>
To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu
Subject: Re: CS 551 proj
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 21:35:57 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > According to the specs we are supposed to run the simulation only upto the
  > number of customers entered at the command line or the default value so the
  > moment we finish serving all the customers we should exit the arrival thread
  > and proceed to display the statistics.
  > 
  > so do we still need to worry about arrival thread sleeping after serving all
  > the customers.

My understanding of the previous e-mail is that the arrival
thread was "sleeping for a time equal to inter-arrival time".
So, there were more customers arriving and it's not the end
of simulation yet.

If all the customers has arrived, the arrival thread should
terminate itself.
--
Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>


  On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 9:00 PM, Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu> wrote:
  
  > Someone wrote:
  >
  >  > I just wanted to a question regarding the end of simulation time. Say now 2
  >  > customers have arrived into the system and both have been served and both
  >  > have left the system. The arrival thread is then sleeping for a time equal
  >  > to inter-arrival time. Now, when the arrival thread is sleeping if the user
  >  > presses Control C, then what is the end of simulation time? Is it the time
  >  > when Control C is pressed or when customer 2 left the system because nothing
  >  > of any note is done after customer 2 leaves the system. Thanks.
  >
  > I don't think this is defined in the spec.  So, either way
  > would be fine.  You should probably document this in your
  > README file.
  > --
  > Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>