Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Fri Sep 26 19:53:18 2008 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on merlot.usc.edu X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (bourbon.usc.edu [128.125.9.75]) by merlot.usc.edu (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8R2rITG004198 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:53:18 -0700 Received: from bourbon.usc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by bourbon.usc.edu (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8R2ulue021192 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:56:47 -0700 Message-Id: <200809270256.m8R2ulue021192@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: 551-warmup-2 tracefile distribution Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:56:47 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > Oh. > Well if the distribution is irrelevant then what do we pass as the first > argument in > int GetInterval(int exponential, double rate) ? The default is 1, so should > I pass 1? It should be irrelevant! The rate should be irrelavent also. Therefore, you should probably call a different function that manages data from the tracefile. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 7:39 PM, Bill Cheng wrote: > > Someone wrote: > > > The spec says: > > If the -t option is specified ..... you should ignore the -lambda, -mu, > > -seed, -n, and -d commandline options. > > > > So we should ignore -d. Then should we keep the distribution as exponential > > (default)? > > When you use a tracefile, the distribution becomes an irrelavent > parameter. > > > But the distribution is not exponential right? As far as I understand, when > > the tracefile is given we have the deterministic distribution as we are > > given all the values for lambda and mu and not just one value. > > I think you are misunderstand "deterministic distribution". > Deterministic distribution means "constant". Clearly, when > you read the tracefile, the distributions are not constants. > -- > Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu