Github user abhishekagarwal87 commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/storm/pull/236#issuecomment-217363373
Because we need average length of queue average over each time window. If
you look at the LatencyStatAndMetric, it does exactly that. I record the queue
lengths in each operation and return the average values with executor
heartbeat.
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