Return-Path: william@bourbon.usc.edu Delivery-Date: Sun Oct 26 21:00:01 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 m9R401DW013392 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:00:01 -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 m9R4AmgQ026524 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:10:48 -0700 Message-Id: <200810270410.m9R4AmgQ026524@bourbon.usc.edu> To: cs551@merlot.usc.edu Subject: Re: A little confused on auto-shutdown Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:10:48 -0700 From: Bill Cheng Someone wrote: > For the auto-shutdown flag, is this timer an absolute timer or timer from > the last time traffic was received by the node? If it is the latter case, > then it sounds like there should be some sort of global variable to keep > track of this since traffic can be coming from numerous sources? It's from the time the node was started. It's not a function of traffic. -- Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu