xhoster_at_gmail.com wrote:
> If each write takes a random amount of time uniformly distributed
> between 0 and 1 (in whatever units of time would make sense), then the
> average wait for one write is 0.5, while the average wait for slower of two
> writes is 0.6667. That is a 33% penalty. I don't know if that qualifies
> as marginal or not. I don't know what a realistic actual distribution of
> write delays is, but I think uniform from 0 to 1 is not too outrageous of
> an assumption.
I never thought of approaching this question from that angle,
but it makes darn good statistical sense. Much appreciated!
Received on Thu Jun 09 2005 - 20:17:02 CDT
