sadp on i386

[Chris Torek]

In article <18431 at nuchat.UUCP> steve at nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia) writes:
>	when the request counter drops to zero, divide the elapsed
>	time by the serviced counter to get the average service time
>	for the session.  Merge the average into your running average
>	using the serviced counter as a weighting factor.

Beyond `some sort of statistics on some sort of controller', I have
no idea what this is all about.  However, note that the algorithm
(not quoted in entirety above) assumes that the request counter will
drop to zero.  This is a very strong probability, but is not assured;
in particular, it will lead to bizarre `continuous controller activity'
benchmarks.
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